RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their
feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that
he told her, because she pressed him: and she told the
riddle to the children of her people.
18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day
before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey?
And what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If
you had not plowed with my heifer, you would have not
found out my riddle.
19 And the Ruach of vuvh came upon him, and he went
down to Ashkelon, and killed thirty men there, and took
their spoil, and gave changes of garments to those who
expounded the riddle. And his anger was lit, and he went
up to his abba's bayit.
20 But Shimshon's wife was given to his companion, who
used to be his chaver.
But it came to pass after some time, in the time of
Shavuot, that Shimshon visited his wife with a young
goat; and he said, I will go into my wife in the bedroom.
But her abba would not allow him to go in.
2 And her abba said, I truly thought that you had utterly
hated her; therefore I gave her to your chaver: is not her
younger sister prettier than her? Take her, I ask you,
instead of her.
3 And Shimshon said concerning them, Now this time I
will be blameless regarding the Plishtim, if I do them evil.
4 And Shimshon went and caught three hundred foxes,
and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a
firebrand in the midst between two tails.
5 And when he had set the torches on fire, he let them go
into the standing corn of the Plishtim, and burned up both
the grain stacks, and also the standing corn, with the
vineyards and olives.
6 Then the Plishtim said, Who has done this? And they
answered, Shimshon, the son-in-law of the Timnite,
because he had taken his wife, and given her to his
chaver. And the Plishtim came up, and burned her and her
abba with fire.
7 And Shimshon said to them, Though you have done
this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will
cease.
8 And he smote them hip and thigh 745 15
with a great
slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the
rock Eytam.
9 Then the Plishtim went up, and camped in Yahudah,
and spread out in Lehi.
10 And the men of Yahudah said, Why have you come up
against us? And they answered, To bind Shimshon have
we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.
11 Then three thousand men of Yahudah went to the top
of the rock Eytam, and said to Shimshon, You know not
that the Plishtim are rulers over us? What is this that you
have done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me,
so have I done to them.
12 And they said to him, We have come down to bind you
so that we may deliver you into the hand of the Plishtim.
And Shimshon said to them, Swear to me, that you will
not fall upon me yourselves.
13 And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind
you hard, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we
will not kill you. And they bound him with two new
cords, and brought him up from the rock.
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14 And when he came to Lehi, the Plishtim shouted
against him: and the Ruach of vuvh came mightily upon
him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as
linen that was burned with fire, and his bands were loosed
from off his hands.
15 And he found a new jawbone of a donkey, and put
forth his hand, and took it, and killed a thousand men with
it.
16 And Shimshon said, With the jawbone of a donkey,
one heap, two heaps; with the jaw of a donkey have I
slain a thousand men.
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of
speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand,
and called that place Ramath-Lehi.
18 And he was very thirsty, he called on vuvh, and said,
You have given this great deliverance into the hand of
Your eved: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the
hands of the uncircumcised?
19 But Elohim split a hollow place that was in Lehi, and
there came mayim out; and when he had drunk, his ruach
came again, and he revived: therefore he called the name
of it En-Chakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 And he gave mishpat to Yisrael in the days of the
Plishtim twenty years.
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Then went Shimshon to Azah, and saw there a harlot,
and went into her.
2 And it was told to the Gazites, saying, Shimshon is
come here. And they surrounded him in, and lay in wait
for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all
the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall
kill him.
3 And Shimshon lay until midnight, and arose at
midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and
the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and
put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the
top of a hill that is before Hevron.
4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in
the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
5 And the rulers of the Plishtim came up to her, and said
to her, Entice him, and see where his great strength lies,
and by what means we may prevail against him, that we
may bind him to afflict him: and we will give you every
one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
6 And Delilah said to Shimshon, Tell me, I ask you,
where does your great strength lie, and with what and
how might you be bound in order to afflict you.
7 And Shimshon said to her, If they bind me with seven
fresh cords that were never dried, then shall I be weak,
and be like any another man.
8 Then rulers of the Plishtim brought up to her seven
fresh cords that had not been dried, and she bound him
with them.
9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in
the bedroom. And she said to him, The Plishtim are upon
you, Shimshon. And he broke the cords, as a strand of
yarn is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength
was not known.
10 And Delilah said to Shimshon, See, you have mocked
me, and told me lies: now tell me, I ask you, with what
might you be bound.
11 And he said to her, If they bind me tightly with new
ropes that never were used, then shall I be weak, and be