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Samson's riddle.

CHAP. XIV, XV. Heburns the Philistines' corn.

to move him at times in the camp of Dan, day, that they said to Samson's wife, Enbetween Zorah and Eshtaol. tice thy husband, that he may declare unto CHAP. XIV. us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy ND Samson went down to Timnath, father's house with fire: have ye called

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daughters of the Philistines.

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16 And Samson's wife wept before him

2 And he came up, and told his father and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest and his mother, and said, I have seen a me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto woman in Timnath of the daughters of the children of my people, and hast not the Philistines: now therefore get her for told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, me to wife. I have not told it my father nor my mo3 Then his father and his mother said ther, and shall I tell it thee? unto him, Is there never a woman among 17 And she wept before him the seven the daughters of thy brethren, or among days, while their feast lasted: and it came all my people, that thou goest to take a to pass on the seventh day, that he told wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? her, because she lay sore upon him: and And Samson said unto his father, Get her she told the riddle to the children of her for me; for she pleaseth me well. 4 But his father and his mother knew 18 And the men of the city said unto not that it was of the LORD, that he sought him on the seventh day before the sun an occasion against the Philistines: for at went down, What is sweeter than honey? that time the Philistines had dominion and what is stronger than a lion? And he over Israel. said unto them, If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath and behold, a young lion roared against him.

people.

19 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took 6 And the Spirit of the LORD came their spoil, and gave change of garments mightily upon him, and he rent him as he unto them which expounded the riddle. would have rent a kid, and he had nothing And his anger was kindled, and he went in his hand but he told not his father or up to his father's house. his mother what he had done.

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20 But Samson's wife was given to his. 7 And he went down, and talked with companion, whom he had used as his friend. the woman; and she pleased Samson well. CHAP. XV. 8¶ And after a time he returned to take DUT it came to pass within a while afher, and he turned aside to see the carcass ter, in the time of wheat-harvest, that of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm Samson visited his wife with a kid; and of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion. he said, I will go in to my wife into the 9 And he took thereof in his hands, and chamber. But her father would not suffer went on eating, and came to his father and him to go in. mother, and he gave them, and they did 2 And her father said, I verily thought eat: but he told not them that he had taken that thou hadst utterly hated her; therethe honey out of the carcass of the lion. fore I gave her to thy companion: is not. 10 So his father went down unto her younger sister fairer than she? take the woman: and Samson made there a her, I pray thee, instead of her. feast; for so used the young men to do. 3 T And Samson said concerning them, 11 And it came to pass, when they saw Now shall I be more blameless than the him, that they brought thirty companions Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. to be with hin. 4 And Samson went and caught three

12 T And Samson said unto them, I will hundred foxes, and took fire-brands, and now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can turned tail to tail, and put a fire-brand certainly declare it me within the seven in the midst between two tails. days of the feast, and find it out, then I 5 And when he had set the brands on will give you thirty sheets and thirty fire, he let them go into the standing corn change of garments: of the Philistines, and burnt up both the

13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shocks, and also the standing corn, with shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty the vineyards and olives. change of garments. And they said unto 6 Then the Philistines said, Who bim, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hath done this? And they answered, Samhear it. son, the son-in-law of the Timnite, be14 And he said unto them, Out of the cause he had taken his wife, and given her eater came forth meat, and out of the to his companion. And the Philistines strong came forth sweetness. And they came up, and burnt her and her father with could not in three days expound the riddle. fire.

15 And it came to pass on the seventh 7 T And Samson said unto them, Though

Samson slays the Philistines.

JUDGES.

He is enticed by Delilah.

ye have done this, yet will I be avenged night in the gate of the city, and were quiet of you, and after that I will cease. all the night, saying, In the morning when

8 And he smote them hip and thigh with it is day we shall kill him. a great slaughter. And he went down 3 And Samson lay till midnight, and and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. arose at midnight, and took the doors of 9 T Then the Philistines went up, and the gate of the city, and the two posts, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves went away with them, bar and all, and put in Lehi. them upon his shoulders, and carried them 10 And the men of Judah said, Why up to the top of a hill that is before are ye come up against us? And they an- Hebron. swered, To bind Samson are we come up, 4 And it came to pass afterward, that to do to him as he hath done to us. he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek,

11 Then three thousand men of Judah whose name was Delilah. went to the top of the rock Etam, and said 5 And the lords of the Philistines came to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Phi- up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, listines are rulers over us? what is this and see wherein his great strength lieth, that thou hast done unto us? And he said and by what means we may prevail against unto them, As they did unto me, so have him, that we may bind him to afflict him: I done unto them. and we will give thee every one of us

12 And they said unto him, We are eleven hundred pieces of silver. come down to bind thee, that we may de- 6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, liver thee into the hand of the Philistines. I pray thee, wherein thy great strength And. Samson said unto them, Swear unto lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. bound to afflict thee.

13 And they spake unto him, saying, 7 And Samson said unto her, If they No; but we will bind thee fast, and deli- bind me with seven green withs, that were ver thee into their hand: but surely we never dried, then shall I be weak, and be will not kill thee. And they bound him as another man. with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs, which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

14 ¶ And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, 9 (Now there were men lying in wait, and the cords that were upon his arms be-abiding with her in the chamber.) And came as flax that was burnt with fire, and she said unto him, The Philistines be upon his bands loosed from off his hands. thee, Samson. And he brake the withs as thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.. 10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

15 And he found a new jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

16 And Samson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

17 And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi.

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11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

18 T And he was sore athirst, and call- 12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, ed on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given and bound him therewith, and said unto this great deliverance into the hand of thy him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samservant and now shall I die for thirst, and son. (And there were liers in wait abiding fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? in the chamber.) And he brake them

19 But God clave a hollow place that from off his arms like a thread.. was in the jaw, and there came water there- 13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hiout; and when he had drunk, his spirit therto thou hast mocked me, and fold me came again, and he revived. Wherefore lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

20 And he judged Israel in the days of
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CHAP. XVI.
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THEN
HEN went Samson to Gaza, and saw

bound. And he said unto her, If thou weayest the seven locks of my head with the web.

14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the

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2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, 15 And she said unto him, How canst Samson is come hither. And they com- thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is passed him in, and laid wait for him all not with me? Thou hast mocked me these

The Philistines put out his eyes. CHAP. XVII.

The idolatry of Micah.

three times, and hast not told me wherein once avenged of the Philistines for my
two eyes.
thy great strength lieth.

16 And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one 17 That he told her all his heart, and with his right hand, and of the other with said unto her, There hath not come a razor his left. upon mine head; for I have been a Naza

30 And Samson said, Let me die with And he bowed himself rite unto God from my mother's womb: if the Philistines. I be shaven, then my strength will go from with all his might; and the house fell upon me, and I shall become weak, and be like the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew any other man. 18 And when Delilah saw that he had at his death were more than they which he told her all his heart, she sent and called slew in his life. for the lords of the Philistines, saying,

31 Then his brethren and all the house Come up this once, for he hath shewed me of his father came down, and took him, and all his heart. Then the lords of the Phi-brought him up, and buried him between listines came up unto her, and brought Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel money in their hand. 19 And she made him sleep upon her twenty years. knees; and she called for a man, and she

CHAP. XVII.

caused him to shave off the seven locks of AND there was a man of mount Ephraim,

his head; and she began to afflict him, his strength went from him.

whose name was Micah.

2 And he said unto his mother, The

20 And she said, The Philistines be eleven hundred shekels of silver that were thee, Samson. And he awoke out of taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, upon behold, his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other and spakest of also in mine ears, times before, and shake myself. And he the silver is with me; I took it. And his wist not that the LORD was departed from mother said Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son. him. 3 And when he had restored the eleven 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my and he did grind in the prison-house. 22 Howbeit the hair of his head began son, to make a graven image and a molten

to grow again after he was shaven.

image: now therefore I will restore it unto

23 Then the lords of the Philistines ga- thee. 4 Yet he restored the money unto his thered them together, for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to re-mother; and his mother took two hundred joice for they said, Our god hath deliver- shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image ed Samson our enemy into our hand. 24 And when the people saw him, they and a molten image: and they were in the praised their god: for they said, Our god house of Micah. hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country; which gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who beslew many of us.

5 And the man Micah had a house of

25 And it came to pass, when their came his priest. hearts were merry, that they said, Call for

6 In those days there was no king in Samson that he may make us sport, And Israel, but every man did that which was they called for Samson out of the prison- right in his own eyes. house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, 26 And Samson said unto the lad that who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. 8 And the man departed out of the city held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house stand- from Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to eth, that I may lean upon them. 27 Now the house was full of men and mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as women: and all the lords of the Philistines he journeyed. 9 And Micah said unto him, Whence were there: and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to that beheld while Samson made sport. 28 And Samson called unto the LORD, sojourn where I may find a place. 10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, with me, and be unto me a father and a only this once, O God, that I may be at priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of

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The Damies seek an inheritance.

JUDGES.

They go to Laish. silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and 12 And they went up, and pitched in thy victuals. So the Levite went in. Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they 11 And the Levite was content to dwell called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this with the man; and the young man was day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim. unto him as one of his sons. 13 And they passed thence unto mount 12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; Ephraim, and came unto the house of Miand the young man became his priest, and cab. was in the house of Micah.

13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

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CHAP. XVIII.

14 T Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.

IN those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of 16 And the six hundred men appointed valour, from Zoral, and from Eshtaol, to with their weapons of war, which were of spy out the land, and to search it; and the children of Dan, stood by the entering they said unto them, Go, search the land: of the gate.

who when they came to mount Ephraim, 17 And the five men that went to spy to the house of Micah, they lodged there. out the land went up, and came in thither, 3 When they were by the house of Mi-and took the graven image, and the ephod, cah, they knew the voice of the young and the teraphim, and the molten image: man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and the priest stood in the entering of the and said unto him, Who brought thee gate with the six hundred men that were hither? and what makest thou in this appointed with weapons of war. place? and what hast thou here? 18 And these went into Micah's house, 4 And he said unto them, Thus and and fetched the carved image, the ephod, thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath and the teraphim, and the molten image. hired me, and I am his priest. Then said the priest unto them, What doye?

5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be

prosperous.

19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: Is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? 20 And the priest's heart was glad, and 7 Then the five men departed, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and came to Laish, and saw the people that the graven image, and went in the midst were therein, how they dwelt careless, af- of the people.

6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace before the LORD is your way a wherein ye go.

ter the manner of the Zidonians, quiet 21 So they turned and departed, and and secure; and there was no magistrate in put the little ones, and the cattle, and the the land, that might put them to shame in carriage before them.

any thing; and they were far from the Zi- 22 And when they were a good way donians, and had no business with any man. from the house of Micah, the men that 8 And they came unto their brethren to were in the houses near to Micah's house Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren were gathered together, and overtook the said unto them, What say ye?

children of Dan.

9 And they said, Arise, that we may go 23 And they cried unto the children of up against them: for we have seen the Dan. . And they turned their faces, and land, and behold, it is very good and are said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that ye still? be not slothful to go, and to en-thou comest with such a company? ter to possess the land. 24 And he said, Ye have taken away

that is in the earth.

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10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a my gods which I made, and the priest, people secure, and to a large land: for and ye are gone away: and what have I God hath given it into your hands; a more? and what is this that ye say unto place where there is no want of any thing me, What aileth thee? 25 And the children of Dan said unto 11 T And there went from thence of the him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, family of the Danites, out of Zorah and lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou out of Eshfaol, six hundred men appoint- lose thy life, with the lives of thy household. ed with weapons of war. 26 And the children of Dan went their

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The Levite and his concubine. CHAP. XIX.

He is entertained at Gibeah.

way: and when Micah saw that they were thee. And they tarried until afternoon, too strong for him, he turned and went and they did eat both of them. back unto his house. 9 And when the man rose up to depart,

27 And they took the things which Mi-he, and his concubine, and his servant, his cah had made, and the priest which he father-in-law, the damsel's father, said had, and came unto Laish, unto a people unto him, Behold, now the day draweth that were at quiet and secure: and they towards evening, I pray you tarry all smote them with the edge of the sword, night: behold, the day groweth to an end, and burnt the city with fire. lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; 28 And there was no deliverer, because and to-morrow get you early on your way, it was far from Zidon, and they had no that thou mayest go home. business with any man; and it was in the 10 But the man would not tarry that valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.

night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusa29 And they called the name of the city lem: and there were with him two asses Dan, after the name of Dan their father, saddled, his concubine also was with him. who was born unto Israel: howbeit the 11 And when they were by Jebus, the name of the city was Laish at the first. day was far spent; and the servant said 30 And the children of Dan set up the unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and graven image and Jonathan, the son of let us turn in unto this city of the JebuGershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sites, and lodge in it. sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

31 And they set them up Micah's graven a image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

CHAP. XIX.

12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places ND it came to pass in those days, to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

A when there was no king in Israel, 14 And they passed on and went their

that there was a certain Levite sojourning way; and the sun went down upon them on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to when they were by Gibeah, which belonghim a concubine out of Beth-lehem-ju- eth to Benjamin.

dah.

15 And they turned aside thither, to go

2 And his concubine played the whore in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he against him, and went away from him unto went in, he sat him down in a street of the her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, city for there was no man that took them and was there four whole months. into his house to lodging.

3. And her husband arose, and went af- 16 And behold, there came an old ter her, to speak friendly unto her, and to man from his work out of the field at even, bring her again, having his servant with which was also of mount Ephraim; and he him, and a couple of asses: and she sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the brought him into her father's house: and place were Benjamites. when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of 4 And his father-in-law, the damsel's the city: and the old man said, Whither father, retained him; and he abode with goest thou? and whence comest thou? him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

18 And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the 5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, side of mount Ephraim; from thence am when they arose early in the morning, I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I that he rose up to depart: and the dam-am now going to the house of the LORD; sel's father said unto his son-in-law, Com-and there is no man that receiveth me to fort thine heart with a morsel of bread, house.

and afterward go your way.

19 Yet there is both straw and proven

6 And they sat down, and did eat and der for our asses; and there is bread and drink both of them together: for the dam-wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, sel's father had said unto the man, Be con- and for the young man which is with thy tent, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and servants: there is no want of any thing. let thine heart be merry. 20 And the old man said, Peace be with 7 And when the man rose up to depart, thee; howsoever, let all thy wants lie upon his father-in-law urged him: therefore he me; only lodge not in the street. lodged there again. 21 So he brought him into his house, and

8 And he arose early in the morning on gave provender unto the asses: and they the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's washed their feet, and did eat and drink. father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray 22 Now as they were making their

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