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A company of Philistines went up then and camped in Judah, where they made a raid against Lehi.

Men of Judah (to the company of Philistines): 10 Why are you doing this?

Philistines: We’ve come up to capture Samson, to make him suffer the way he has made us suffer.

Then 3,000 men of Judah went to the rock of Etam to talk to Samson.

Men of Judah (to Samson): 11 Are you crazy? The Philistines are our masters! They have the upper hand. Don’t you know what you’re doing to us?

Samson: I’m only paying them back for what they have done to me.

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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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