1And a while after, when the days of the wheat harvest were at hand, Samson came, meaning to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid of the flock. And when he would have gone into her chamber, as usual, her father would not suffer him, saying:

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Genesis 38:17, Genesis 38:17, Genesis 29:21, Luke 15:29, Genesis 29:21

2I thought thou hadst hated her, and therefore I gave her to thy friend: but she hath a sister, who is younger and fairer than she, take her to wife instead of her.

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Judges 14:20, Judges 14:20, Acts 26:9, Genesis 38:14, Judges 14:16

3And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.

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Judges 14:15, Judges 14:15

4And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails:

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Song of Solomon 2:15, Lamentations 5:18, Psalms 63:10, Song of Solomon 2:15, Lamentations 5:18

5And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run about hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing corn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that was already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all burnt, insomuch that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the oliveyards.

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2 Samuel 14:30, Exodus 22:6, 2 Samuel 14:30, Exodus 22:6

6Then the Philistines said: Who hath done this thing? And it was answered: Samson, the son in law of the Thamnathite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another, hath done these things. And the Philistines went up and burnt both the woman and her father.

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Judges 14:15, Judges 14:15, Proverbs 22:8, 1 Thessalonians 4:6, Proverbs 22:8

7But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.

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Judges 14:19, Judges 14:4, Romans 12:19, Judges 14:19, Judges 14:4

8And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.

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Isaiah 25:10, Isaiah 63:6, Isaiah 63:3, Isaiah 25:10, Isaiah 63:6

9Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread abroad.

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Judges 15:19, Judges 15:17, Judges 15:19, Judges 15:17, Judges 15:14

10And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay him for what he hath done against us.

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11Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.

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Judges 13:1, Judges 14:4, Judges 13:1, Judges 14:4, Deuteronomy 28:47

12And they said to him: We are come to bind thee, and to deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them: Swear to me, and promise me that you will not kill me.

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Judges 8:21, 1 Kings 2:34, 1 Kings 2:25, Acts 7:25, Matthew 27:2

13They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock Etam.

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14Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.

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Judges 14:19, Judges 14:19, Psalms 118:11, Judges 14:6, Judges 3:10

15And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay there, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.

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Leviticus 26:8, Joshua 23:10, Leviticus 26:8, Joshua 23:10, Judges 3:31

16And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses, I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.

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17And when he had ended these words, singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.

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18And being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.

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2 Corinthians 12:7, 2 Corinthians 12:8, 2 Corinthians 12:7, 2 Corinthians 12:8, Psalms 3:7

19Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass and waters issued out of it. And when he had drunk them, he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.

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Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 44:3, Genesis 45:27, Genesis 45:27, Psalms 34:6

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

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Judges 13:1, Judges 13:1, Judges 16:31, Judges 16:31, Hebrews 11:32