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1 ch. 16. 5.

7 ch. 15. 6.

m Cp. ch. 16. 15.

n Cp. ch. 16. 16.

p ch. 1. 18.

Put forth thy riddle, that we may
hear it. 14 And he said unto them,
Out of the eater came forth
meat,

is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. 3 And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameAnd out of the strong came less in regard of the Philistines, forth sweetness. when I do them a mischief. 4 And And they could not in three days Samson went and caught three hundeclare the riddle. 15 And it came dred foxes, and took firebrands, to pass on the seventh day, that and turned tail to tail, and put a they said unto Samson's wife, En- firebrand in the midst between every tice thy husband, that he may de- two tails. 5 And when he had set clare unto us the riddle, 'lest we the brands on fire, he let them go burn thee and thy father's house into the standing corn of the Philiswith fire have ye called us to tines, and burnt up both the shocks 2 impoverish us? is it not so? and the standing corn, and also the 16 And Samson's wife wept before oliveyards. Then the Philistines him, and said, m Thou dost but said, Who hath done this? And hate me, and lovest me not: thou they said, Samson, the son in law hast put forth a riddle unto the of the Timnite, because he hath children of my people, and hast taken his wife, "and given her to uver. 2. not told it me. And he said unto his companion. And the Philistines her, Behold, I have not told it my came up, and burnt her and her father nor my mother, and shall I father with fire. 7 And Samson said tell it thee? 17 And she wept be- unto them, If ye do after this manfore him the seven days, while their ner, surely I will be avenged of you, feast lasted and it came to pass on and after that I will cease. : 8 And the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore: and she told the riddle to the children of her people. 18 And the men of the city said unto 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 unto them,

If ye had not plowed with my
heifer,

Ye had not found out my
riddle.
o See ver. 6. 19° And the spirit of the LORD
came mightily upon him, and he
went down to Ashkelon, and smote
thirty men of them, and took their
3 spoil, and gave the changes of rai-
ment unto them that declared the
riddle. And his anger was kindled,
and he went up to his father's
house. 20 But Samson's wife was
9 ch. 15.2.6. given to his companion, "whom he
John 3. 29. had used as his friend.

8 Cp. Gen.

S8. 17.

t ver. 6.
ch. 14. 20.

15

1 But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. 2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; there fore I gave her to thy companion:

1 The Sept. and Syriac have, fourth.

quits with

ch. 14. 15.

he smote them hip and thigh with
a great slaughter: and he went
down and dwelt in the " cleft of the wver. 11.
rock of Etam.

Isai. 2. 21 & 57. 5.

2 Sam. 5. 18, 22. 17, 19.

y ver. 14,

& 14. 4.

9 Then the Philistines went up,
and pitched in Judah, and spread
themselves in Lehi.
10 And the
men of Judah said, Why are ye
come up against us? And they
said, To bind Samson are we come
up, to do to him as he hath done to
us.
II Then three thousand men
of Judah went down to the cleft
of the rock of Etam, and said to
Samson, Knowest thou not that the ch. 13. 1
Philistines are rulers over us? what
then is this that thou hast done
unto us? And he said unto them,
As they did unto me, so have I
done unto them. 12 And they said
unto him, We are come down to
bind thee, that we may deliver thee
into the hand of the Philistines.
And Samson said unto them, Swear
unto me, that ye will not fall upon
me yourselves. 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 ropes, and brought
him up from the rock. 14 When
he came unto Lehi, the Philistines
shouted as they met him

2 Or, take that we have 3 Or, apparel
5 Or, jackals 6 Or, torches

and the

4 Or, shall I be

12.

ach. 16. 11,
ch. 14. 6,
1 Sam.
1.6.

19.

Cp. ch. 8.

10.

< Josh. 23. 10.

Cp. eh. 3.

31
& Lev.
25.8.

Cp. Ps.

3.7.

spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands 1 dropped from off his hands. 15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith. 16 And Samson

said,

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With the jawbone of an ass, 2 heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten 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 d ver. 9, 14. hand; and that place was called 4 Ramath-lehi. 18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised. 19 But God clave the hollow place that is din 5 Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called Enhakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day. 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

ƒ Gen. 45. 27.

g ch. 13. 1.

A Josh. 15. 47.

23.26

& Ps. 118. 10-12.

& Acts 9. 9%.

16

1 And Samson went to h Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. 2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And Cp 1 Sam. they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, Let be till morning light, then we will kill him. 3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Josh. 13.3. Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth,

k ch. 14. 15.

m

and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to 107 afflict him: and we will ver. 19. give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. 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. 7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven 11 green withes that were never dried, then shall I be- m ver. 11, 17. come weak, and be as another man. 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven 11 green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 9 Now she had liers in wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it 12 toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. 10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. II And he said unto her, If they only bind me with "new n ch. 15. 13, ropes wherewith no work hath been 14. done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man. 12 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And the liers in wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread. 13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web. 14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web. 15 And she said unto him, How och. 14. 16. canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. 16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him Cp. ch. daily with her words, and urged

1 Heb. were melted. 2 Heb. an heap, two heaps. the jawbone. 5 Or, the jawbone 6 Or, he called the called. 8 Or. When (or Before) the morning is light bowstrings 12 Heb. smelleth.

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8 Or, he called that place 4 That is, The hill of name thereof 7 That is, The spring of him that 9 Or, by the brook 10 Or, humble 11 Or, new

14. 17.

q Cp. ch. 13. 5.

r ver. 5.

him, that his soul was vexed unto death. 17 And he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. 18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought "the money in their hand. 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for 2a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake my t1 Sam. 28. self. But he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. 21 And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; "and he did grind in the prison house. 22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

■ ver. 5, 6.

15, 16.

u Cp. Ex. 11.5

& Matt. 24.

41.

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23 And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto "Dagon their god, and to rejoice for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. 24 And When the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which hath slain many of us. 25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made sport before them: and they set him between the pillars. 26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them. 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and

22. 8
& 2 Sam.
11.2

& Neh. 8.

16

& Matt. 24. 17

& Mark 13. 15

& Luke 17. 31.

all the lords of the Philistines were
there; and there were upon the y Cp. Deut.
roof about three thousand men and
women, that beheld while Samson
made sport. 28 And Samson called
unto the LORD, and said, O Lord
GOD, remember me, I pray thee,
and strengthen me, I pray thee,
only this once, O God, that I may Jer. 15. 15.
be at once avenged of the Philis-
tines for my two eyes. 29 And Sam-
son took hold of the two middle
pillars upon which the house rested,
and leaned upon them, the one with
his right hand, and the other with
his left. 30 And Samson said, Let
me die with the Philistines. And
he bowed himself with all his might;
and the house fell upon the lords,
and upon all the people that were
therein. So the dead which he slew
at his death were more than they
which he slew in his life. 31 Then
his brethren and all the house of
his father came down, and took
him, and brought him up, and
buried him a between Zorah and a ch. 13. 25.
Eshtaol in the buryingplace of
Manoah his father. And he judged
Israel twenty years.

I And there was a man of

17the hill country of Ephraim, ver. 8.

d

ch. 18. 2. See Josh.

1 Sam. 15. 13.

whose name was Micah.
2 And he said unto his mother, The 24.33.
eleven hundred pieces of silver that
were taken from thee, about which
thou didst utter a curse, and didst
also speak it in mine ears, behold,
the silver is with me; I took it.
And his mother said, Blessed be Ruth 3. 10.
my son of the LORD. 3 And he re-
stored the eleven hundred pieces of
silver to his mother, and his mother
said, I verily dedicate the silver
unto the LORD from my hand for
my son, to make da graven image
and a molten image: now therefore
I will restore it unto thee. 4 And
when he restored the money unto
his mother, his mother took two
hundred pieces of silver, and gave
them to the founder, who made there-
of a graven image and a molten
image: and it was in the house of
Micah. 5 And the man Micah had
an house of gods, and he made an
ephod, and teraphim, and conse-
crated one of his sons, who became
his priest. 6 In those days there
was no king in Israel: every man

1 Or, according to another reading, he had told her 2 Or, the men 3 Or, be avenged... for one of
my two eyes 4 Or, an adjuration 5 Or, had dedicated 6 Or, God 7 Heb. filled the hand of.

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20. 4.

Cp. Ex. Cp. Lev. 19.4.

Cp. Isai.

46. 6.

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& 18. 17. See Ex. 28. 6-35.

Cp. Gen.

& Hos. 3. 4. iver. 12, Cp. 1 Kin. 13. 33.

ch. 18. 1

& 19.
& 21. 25.
Cp. Deut.
12. 8.

CHAP. 17, v. 6.]

Ich. 19. 1.
Ruth 1.
1,2.
Mic. 5. 2.
Matt. 2. 1,
5,6.

24.33.

JUDGES.

did that which was right in his own

eyes.

7 And there was a young man out of 'Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. 8 And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came See Josh. to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. 9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where 10 And Micah I may find a place. said unto him, Dwell with me, and sch. 18. 19. be unto me "a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of So the apparel, and thy victuals. 11 And the Levite Levite went in. • Cp. Ex. 2. ° was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him 12 And Micah as one of his sons. P consecrated the Levite, and the 9 Cp. ch. 18. young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. 13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

21.

P ver. 5.

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reh. 17. 6 & 21. 25.

a Cp. ch. 1. 34

47, 48.

I ver. 8, 11. eh. 13. 25. ☐ Cp. Num. 13. 17

& Josh. 2.1.

See Josh.
24.39.

8

I'In those days there was 18 no king in Israel and in those days the tribe of the Josh. 19. Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valour, 'from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, "to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the ch 17.1,8. land: and they came to the hill country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodged there. 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned aside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what 4 And he said hast thou here? unto them, Thus and thus hath wand he se ch. 17. 10. Micah dealt with me, hath hired me, and I am become Num. 27. his priest. 5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be

21.

Cp. Isai.
30. I

& Hos. 4.
12. al.

1 Heb. power of restraint.

prosperous. 6 And the priest said
unto them, "Go in peace: before
the LORD is your way wherein ye
go.

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7 Then the five men departed,
and came to Laish, and saw the Cp. Josh.
people that were therein, how they
dwelt in security, after the manner
of the Zidonians, a quiet and secure; a ver. 10, 27.
for there was none in the land, pos-
sessing 1authority, 2 that might put
them to shame in any thing, and

13. 20
& Josh. 2.

d Cp. Num.

they were far from the Zidonians, b ver. 28. and had no dealings with any man. 8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their ever. 2, 11. brethren said unto them, What say ye? 9 And they said, "Arise, and let us go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good and are ye still? 10 When ye be not slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land. go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and the land is large God hath given it into your hand; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

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18.3.

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II And there set forth from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with wea- i ver. 16. 12 And they went up, pons of war. and encamped in Kiriath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan, unto this & eh. 13, 25. day behold, it is behind Kiriathjearim. 13 And they passed thence unto 'the hill country of Ephraim, ver. 2. and came unto the house of Micah. 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these m ch. 17. houses an ephod, and teraphim, therefore consider and a graven image, and a molten image? now what ye have to do. 15 And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and "asked him of his welfare. 16 And the six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood 17 And by the entering of the gate.

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g ver. 14.

r Job 21.5
& 29.9
& 40. 4.
Prov. 30.
32.

Mic. 7. 16.
ch. 17. 10.

Cp. 1 Sam.
Isai. 10.

17.22

28

& Acts 21.

15.

the priest stood by the entering of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war. 18 And when these went into Micah's house, and fetched the graven image, the ch. 17. 4, 5. ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said unto them, What do ye? 19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, "lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be priest unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? 20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the goods before them. 22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan. 23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, 1 that thou comest with such a comu Cp. Gen. pany? 24 And he said, "Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee? 25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household. 26 And the children of Dan went their way and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house. 27 And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto w ver. 7, 10. Laish, unto a people "quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire. 28 And there was no deliverer, because it was "far from Zidon, and they had no Cp. Num. dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built the city, and Gen. 14.11. dwelt therein. 29 And they called the name of the city a Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who

31.30.

Cp. 1 Sam.

1. 10 (for mg.)

22.2 (mg.

for mg.) & 2 Sam. 17.8 (mg. for mg.).

x Josh. 19.

47.

y ver. 7. z 2 Sam. 10. 6.

13. 21
& Josh. 19.
28.

a ch. 20. 1.

1 Kin. 12.
29, 30
& 15. 20.

1 Heb. that thou art gathered together.
4 Heb. to her heart.

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19 those days, when there was ch. 17.6

& 18. 1

& 21. 25.

See Josh.

24. 33.

See ch.

17.7.

no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. 2 And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehem - judah, and was there the space of four months. 3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly unto her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. 4 And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there. 5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart jver. 8. with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye shall go your way. 6 So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together: and the damsel's father said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry. 7 And the man rose up to depart; but his father in law urged him, and he lodged there again. 8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsel's father said, 'Com- ver. 5. fort thine heart, I pray thee, and tarry ye until the day declineth; and they did eat, both of them. 9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's fa

2 Heb. bitter of soul. 3 Another reading is, Manasseh. 5 Another reading is, it, that is, her heart.

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