The Koine Bible

And it came to pass after days, in the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats, and he said, I will go in to my wife into the inner chamber; but her father did not give him to enter.

And her father said, saying, I said that you had surely hated her, and I gave her to one of your companions; is not her younger sister better than she? Let her now be yours instead of her.

And Samson said to them, I shall be blameless this time from the Philistines, because I am doing evil against them.

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes and took torches and turned tail to tail and put one torch between the two tails and bound them

And he set fire in the torches and sent it away among the standing grain of the Philistines, and it burned from the threshing floor even to the standing grain and even to the vineyard and the olive tree

And the Philistines said, Who did these things? And they said, Samson, the bridegroom of Thamni, because he took his wife and gave her to one of his companions. And the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire.

And Samson said to them, If you do thus to her, because if I do not surely take vengeance on you, then I will be at the last exhausted.

And he struck them leg on thigh with a great blow, and he went down and sat in the cleft of the rock Etam

And the Philistines went up and encamped in Judah, and were spread out in Lehi.

And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And the foreigners said, We have come up to bind Samson and to do to him as he did to us.

And three thousand men went down from Judah to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, Do you not know that the foreigners rule over us? And what is this that you have done to us? And Samson said to them, As they did to me, so I did to them.

And they said to him, We have come down to bind you, to give you into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not yourselves meet upon me.

And they said to him, saying, No, but only by binding we will bind you and hand you over into their hand, and we will by no means put you to death. And they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from that rock.

And they came as far as Lehi, and the foreigners shouted and ran to meet him, and the spirit of the Lord leaped upon him, and the cords that were on his arms became like flax that has been burned in fire, and his bonds melted away from his hands.

And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and he stretched out his hand and took it, and he struck with it a thousand men.

And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, in wiping out I wiped them out, because with the jawbone of the ass I struck down a thousand men

And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking, that he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and he called that place Jawbone Throwing

And he thirsted exceedingly, and he cried to the Lord and said, You have been pleased by the hand of your servant with this great salvation, and now shall I die from thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

And God burst open the hollow that was in the jaw, and water came out from it, and he drank, and his spirit returned, and he revived; therefore its name was called The Spring of the One Calling, which is in Jaw, until this day.

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years