18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

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

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18 Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord,(A) “You have given your servant this great victory.(B) Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” 19 Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived.(C) So the spring(D) was called En Hakkore,[a] and it is still there in Lehi.

20 Samson led[b] Israel for twenty years(E) in the days of the Philistines.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:19 En Hakkore means caller’s spring.
  2. Judges 15:20 Traditionally judged