¶ Then the Philistines came up, and pitched in Judah, and [a]were spread abroad in Lehi.

10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up unto us? And they answered, To [b]bind Samson are we come up, and to do to him as he hath done to us.

11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? [c]Wherefore then hast thou done thus unto us? And he answered them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:9 Or, camped.
  2. Judges 15:10 And so being our prisoner to punish him.
  3. Judges 15:11 Such was their gross ignorance, that they judged God’s great benefits to be a plague unto them.

The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi.(A) 10 The people of Judah asked, “Why have you come to fight us?”

“We have come to take Samson prisoner,” they answered, “to do to him as he did to us.”

11 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?(B) What have you done to us?”

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

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