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Is there never a among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goeft to take a wife of the uncircumcifed Philiftines? And Samfon faid unto his father, Get her for me; for fhe pleafeth me well.

4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he fought an occafion againft the Philiftines: for at that time the Philiftines had dominion over Ifrael.

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

6 And the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him; and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand : but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. 7 And he went down and talked with the woman; and The pleafed Samson well.

8 And after a time, he returned to take her, and he | turned afide to fee the carcafe of the lion: and behold there was a fwarm of bees, and honey in the carcafe of the lion.

9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcafe of the lion.

10 So his father went

down unto the woman, and Samfon made there a feaft: for fo ufed the young men to do.

II And it came to pals when they faw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

12 And Samfon faid unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the feven days of the feaft, and find it out, then I will give you thirty fheets, and thirty change of garments.

13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty fheets, and thirty change of garments. And they faid unto him, Fut forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.

14 And he faid unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the ftrong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. 15 And it came to pass on

the seventh day, that they took their spoil, and gave faid unto Samfon's wife, change of garments unto Entice thy husband, that he them which expounded the may declare unto us the rid-riddle. And his anger was dle, left we burn thee and kindled, and he went up to thy father's houfe with fire: his father's houfe. have called us to take that ye

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16 And Samfon's wife wept before him, and faid, Thou doft but hate me, and loveft me not: thou haft put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and haft not told it me. And he faid unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and fhall I tell it thee? 17 And the wept before him the feven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, becaufe the lay fore upon him: and fhe told the riddle to the children of her people.

18 And the men of the city faid unto him on the feventh day, before the fun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is ftronger than a lion? And he faid unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

19¶ And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Afhkelon, and flew thirty men of them, and

20 But Samfon's wife was given to his companion, whom he had ufed as his friend.

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UT it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samfon vifited his wife with a kid, and he faid, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

2 And her father faid, I verily thought that thou hadft utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion is not her younger fifter fairer than fhe? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

3¶ And Samfon faid concerning them, Now fhall I be more blameless than the Philiftines, though I do them a displeasure.

4 And Samfon went and caught three hundred foxes, and took fire-brands, and turned tail to tail, and put a fire-brand in the midft between two tails.

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5 And when he had fet the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the fhocks, and alfo the ftanding corn, with the vineyards and olives.

6 Then the Philistines faid, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samfon the fon-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

7 And Samfon faid unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will ceafe.

8 And he fmote them hip and thigh with a a great laughter. And he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

9 Then the Philiftines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

10 And the men of Ju dah faid, Why are ye come up against us and they an(wered, To bind Samfon are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

I Then three thoufand men of Judah, went to the

top of the rock Etam, and faid to Samfon, Knoweft thou not that the Philiftines are rulers over us? what is this that thou haft done unto us? And he faid unto them, As they did unto me so have I done unto them.

12 And they faid unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samfon faid unto them, Swear unto me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

13 And they fpake unto him, faying, No; but we will bind thee faft, and deliver thee into their hand: but furely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

14 ¶ And when he came unto Lehi, the Philiftines shouted against him: and the fpirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loofed from off his hands.

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

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16 And Samfon faid, With the jaw-bone of an afs, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an afs have I flain a thousand men.

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

18 And he was fore athirst, and called on the Lord, and faid, Thou haft given this great deliverance into the hand of thy fervant: and now fhall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcifed.

19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his fpirit came again, and he revived. Wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

20 And he judged Ifrael in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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compaffed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, faying, In the morning when it is day we shall kill him.

3 And Samfon lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two pofts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his fhoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

4 ¶ And it came to pafs afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whofe name was Delilah.

5 And the lords of the Philiftines came up unto her, and faid unto her, Entice him, and fee wherein his great ftrength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee, every one of us, eleven hundred pieces of filver.

6 And Delilah faid to Samfon, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great ftrength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. ob d

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2 And it was told the Gazitės, faying, Samfon is 7 And Samfon faid unto come hither. And they her, If they bind me with

feven green withs, that were never dried, then fhall I be weak, and be as another man. 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her feven green withs which had not been dried, and the bound him with them.

9 (Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber) and fhe faid unto him, The Philiftines be upon thee, Samfon. And he brake the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire: fo his ftrength was not known.

10 And Delilah faid unto Samfon, Behold, thou haft mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mighteft be bound.

II And he faid unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then fhall I be weak, and be as another

man.

12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and faid unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samfon. (And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber.) And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

13 And Delilah faid unto Samfon, Hitherto thou haft

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14 And the faftened it with the pin, and faid unto him, The Philiftines be upon thee, Samfon. And he awaked out of his fleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

15 ¶ And the said unto him, How canft thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? Thou haft mocked me these three times, and haft not told me wherein thy great ftrength lieth,

16 And it came to pass when the preffed him daily with her words, and urged him, fo that his foul was vexed unto death;

17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be fhaven, then my ftrength will go from me, and I fhall become weak, and be like any other man.

18 And when Delilah faw that he had told her all his heart, fhe fent and called for the lords of the Philiftines, faying, Come up this once, for he hath fhewed

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