1But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

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

2And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

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

3And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

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Judges 14:15, Judges 14:15

4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two 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 when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

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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? And they answered, Samson, the son 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.

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

7And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

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

8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top 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 went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

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

10And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

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11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

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

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

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

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

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14And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit 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 loosed from off his hands.

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

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

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

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

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

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18And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand 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

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