1But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

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

2Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Please take her, instead."

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

3Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."

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Judges 14:15, Judges 14:15

4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every 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

5When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

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

6Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion." 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

7Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will 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

8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of 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 encamped 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

10The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us."

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11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" 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

12They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves."

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

13They spoke to him, saying, "No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

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14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped 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 fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

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

16Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."

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17It happened, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.

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18He was very thirsty, and called on the Lord, and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your 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

19And God split the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore its name was called En Hakore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

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

20He 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