Judges · Chapter 15 King James Version

Judges 15:14

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The Scripture

(14) And 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.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)

Judges 15 recounts Samson's escalating conflict with the Philistines after his father-in-law gives his wife to another man, beginning with Samson burning their crops using three hundred foxes tied tail-to-tail with firebrands. The Philistines retaliate by burning his wife and her father, and Samson in turn slaughters many of them, then is bound and handed over by Judah only to break his ropes and kill a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass. When he grows faint with thirst, God splits open the hollow place at Lehi to give him water, and the chapter notes that Samson judged Israel for twenty years.

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