# Judges 15

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Some time later, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing a young goat. He said, “I am going in to my wife in her room.” But her father would not let him go in.
2. Her father said, “I was sure you hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Please take her instead.”
3. Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless when I do the Philistines harm.”
4. So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes. He took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.
5. He set the torches on fire and let the foxes loose into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up both the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive groves.
6. The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” They were told, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took Samson’s wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
7. Samson said to them, “If this is how you act, I will not stop until I have taken revenge on you.”
8. He struck them down hip and thigh with a great slaughter. Then he went down and stayed in the cave in the rock of Etam.
9. The Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and spread out near Lehi.
10. The men of Judah asked, “Why have you come up against us?” They answered, “We have come up to take Samson prisoner, to do to him as he did to us.”
11. Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us?” He said to them, “I only did to them what they did to me.”
12. They said to him, “We have come down to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
13. “No,” they told him, “we will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you.” So they tied him up with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
14. As he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and the ropes on his arms became like flax that has caught fire, and the bonds melted off his hands.
15. He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and struck down a thousand men with it.
16. Then Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps! With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck down a thousand men.”
17. When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone away. So that place was called Ramath-lehi.
18. He was very thirsty, and he called out to Yahweh, “You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19. So God split open the hollow place at Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength came back and he revived. That is why it was named En-hakkore; it is still at Lehi to this day.
20. Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

## Nearby chapters

[Judges 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/judges/14.md)
[Judges 16](https://www.lumin.faith/read/judges/16.md)

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