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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF JDG 15:1 Samson comes to fetch his Wife. Her Father refuses him.
Afterwards when the time of wheat harvest came Samson visited his wife with a goat's kid, and said, "I wish to go to my wife's chamber." But her father would not allow him to enter.
RF JDG 15:2 Her father also remarked, "I said to myself, he hates her. So I have given her to your friend. Is not her younger sister handsomer than she? I will give her to you instead of her!"
RF JDG 15:3 (B.C. 1140.) Samson's Revenge. He fires the Philistine's Cornfields.
Samson, however, replied to him, "I will be revenged this time on the Philistines for doing me wrong!"
RF JDG 15:4 and went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches and tied their tails together, and fixed a torch between the two tails,
RF JDG 15:5 then fired the torches and sent them amongst the cornfields of the Philistines, and burnt the shocks and standing corn, and the olive-yards.
RF JDG 15:6 When the Philistines enquired, "Who has done this?" they were told, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Thimnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion." The Philistines therefore went up and burnt her and her father with fire.
RF JDG 15:7 But Samson said to them, "Because you have done this, I will be revenged upon you, and then I will cease!"
RF JDG 15:8 So he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. Then he went and occupied a cavern in the precipice of Aitan.
RF JDG 15:9 (B.C. 1140.) The Philistines in revenge plunder Judea, and demand Samson, but he slaughters a thousand of them with the Jaw of an Ass.
The Philistines afterwards went up and encamped in Judah, and advanced to Balkhi.—
RF JDG 15:10 When the men of Judah asked "Why have you advanced against us?" they replied "You must hand over to us Samson for us to do what we intend to him."
RF JDG 15:11 Three thousand men therefore went from Judah to the cavern in the precipice of Aitan, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines govern us? Then why have you done this to us?" When he replied, "As they did to me, I have done to them!"
RF JDG 15:12 But they answered him, "We have come to bind you, and give you to the hands of the Philistines.' Samson only said to them, "Swear to me that you will not assail me yourselves!"
RF JDG 15:13 So they replied to him saying, "We will only bind you and deliver you to their hands; and we will not kill you." Then they bound him with two new ropes and hoisted him down from the cliff.
RF JDG 15:14 But when they came to Lekhi, and the Philistines shouted at his approach, an enthusiasm fell upon him and he smashed the manacles that were upon his arms like burnt flax, and snapped the cords off his hands,
RF JDG 15:15 and finding the fresh jaw-bone of an ass, he put out his hand and seized it, and killed a thousand men with it!
RF JDG 15:16 Then Samson exclaimed;—"With the jaw-bone of an ass, I have made them asses!—With the jaw-bone of an ass, I've slain a thousand men!"
RF JDG 15:17 And as he ceased speaking he threw the jaw-bone from his hand, and named the place "Jaw-hill."1
RF JDG 15:18 Samson's exhaustion after the fight. His Prayer.
Then he was terribly exhausted, and cried to the EVER-LIVING, and said, "You have given this great victory to the hand of Your servant, and now I shall die for thirst, or fall by the hand of the uncircumcised."
RF JDG 15:19 Then GOD opened the well at Balkhi, and water came from it, and he drank and his spirit returned to him, and he survived; therefore he called its name "Prayer-well," which is in Balkhi2 to this day.
RF JDG 15:20 He afterwards judged in Israel during the Philistine period, twenty years.
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1. Ramath-lekhi, in Hebrew.—F.F.
2 V. 19. Balkhi, "At the Jaw."—F.F.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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