Judges · Chapter 15 King James Version

Judges 15:2

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The Scripture

(2) And 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.
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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Cross-references
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Related verses (shared words)

Isaiah 3:24Ezekiel 16:46Deuteronomy 21:15