The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Grace777x70]

Judges 15:7 (NASB)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] Samson said to them, "Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit."

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 15:8
King James Version(KJV)

8.)And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 15:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 15:10 (KJV)
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 15:11
New International Version (NIV)

Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?”

He answered, “I merely did to them what they did to me.”

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 15:12 (NASB)
[SUP]12 [/SUP] They said to him, "We have come down to bind you so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not kill me."

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 15:13
King James Version(KJV)

13.)And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 15:14 (KJV)
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.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 15:15 (NASB)
[SUP]15 [/SUP] He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.

 

[mar09]

Jdg 15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 15:17 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 15:18
New International Version (NIV)

Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, “You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 15:19 (NASB)
[SUP]19 [/SUP] But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 15:20 (KJV)
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 16:1 (NASB)
[SUP]1 [/SUP] Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 16:2
New International Version (NIV)

The people of Gaza were told, “Samson is here!” So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, “At dawn we’ll kill him.”

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 16:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] Now Samson lay until midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts and pulled them up along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 16:4 (KJV)
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 16:5
New International Version (NIV)

The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

 

[john832]

Jdg 16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.