Judges, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the
Philistines forty years. {13:2} There was a certain man of Zorah, of
the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was
barren, and didn't bear. {13:3} The angel of the LORD appeared to the
woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but
you shall conceive, and bear a son. {13:4} Now therefore please beware
and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:
{13:5} for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from
the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines."
{13:6} Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of
God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God,
very awesome; and I didn't ask him where he was from, neither did he
tell me his name: {13:7} but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall
conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and
eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God
from the womb to the day of his death.'"
{13:8} Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, "Oh, Lord, please
let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us
what we shall do to the child who shall be born."
{13:9} God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God
came again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her
husband, wasn't with her. {13:10} The woman made haste, and ran, and
told her husband, and said to him, "Behold, the man has appeared to
me, who came to me that day."
{13:11} Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man,
and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to the woman?"
He said, "I am."
{13:12} Manoah said, "Now let your words happen. What shall the
child's way of life and mission be?"
{13:13} The angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to
the woman let her beware. {13:14} She may not eat of anything that
comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat
any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe."
{13:15} Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "Please, let us detain
you, that we may make a young goat ready for you."
{13:16} The angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Though you detain me,
I won't eat of your bread; and if you will prepare a burnt offering,
you must offer it to the LORD." For Manoah didn't know that he was the
angel of the LORD.
{13:17} Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name,
that when your words happen, we may honor you?"
{13:18} The angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask about my
name, since it is wonderful?"
{13:19} So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and
offered it on the rock to the LORD. Then the angel did a wonderful
thing as Manoah and his wife looked on. {13:20} For it happened, when
the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of
the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife
looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. {13:21} But the
angel of the LORD didn't appear to Manoah or to his wife any more.
Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. {13:22} Manoah
said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."
{13:23} But his wife said to him, "If the LORD were pleased to kill
us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at
our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would
at this time have told such things as these." {13:24} The woman bore a
son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed
him. {13:25} The Spirit of the LORD began to move him in Mahaneh Dan,
between Zorah and Eshtaol.
{14:1} Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the
daughters of the Philistines. {14:2} He came up, and told his father
and his mother, and said, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the
daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife."
{14:3} Then his father and his mother said to him, "Is there never a
woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people,
that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?"
Samson said to his father, "Get her for me; for she pleases me well."
{14:4} But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of the
LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that
time the Philistines had rule over Israel. {14:5} Then went Samson
down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the
vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him.
{14:6} The Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and he tore him as
he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but
he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done. {14:7} He
went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
{14:8} After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to
see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in
the body of the lion, and honey. {14:9} He took it into his hands, and
went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and
gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken
the honey out of the body of the lion. {14:10} His father went down to
the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to
do. {14:11} It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty
companions to be with him.
{14:12} Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle now. If you
can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it
out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of
clothing; {14:13} but if you can't declare it to me, then you shall
give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing."
They said to him, "Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it."
{14:14} He said to them,
"Out of the eater came forth food.
Out of the strong came forth sweetness."
They couldn't in three days declare the riddle. {14:15} It happened
on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your
husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and
your father's house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is
it not so?"
{14:16} Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You just hate me,
and don't love me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my
people, and haven't told it me."
He said to her, "Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother,
and shall I tell you?"
{14:17} She wept before him the seven days, while their feast
lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because
she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of
her people. {14:18} The men of the city said to him on the seventh day
before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is
stronger than a lion?"
He said to them,
"If you hadn't plowed with my heifer,
you wouldn't have found out my riddle."
{14:19} The Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and he went
down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil,
and gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His
anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house. {14:20} But
Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his
friend.
{15:1} But it happened 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. {15:2} Her 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? Please take her, instead."
{15:3} Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in regard
of the Philistines, when I harm them." {15:4} Samson 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. {15:5} When 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.
{15:6} Then 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.
{15:7} Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will
be avenged of you, and after that I will cease." {15:8} He struck them
hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in
the cleft of the rock of Etam. {15:9} Then the Philistines went up,
and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
{15:10} The 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."
{15:11} Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of
the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you 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."
{15:12} They 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."
{15:13} They 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.
{15:14} When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met
him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the ropes
that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his
bands dropped from off his hands. {15:15} He found a fresh jawbone of
a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand
men therewith. {15:16} Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey,
heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand
men." {15:17} It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that
he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called
Ramath Lehi. {15:18} He 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?"
{15:19} But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water
came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he
revived: therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi,
to this day. {15:20} He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines
twenty years.
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