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Jephthah's vow.

and her towns, and in Aroer y and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?

27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge z be judge a this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

29 T Then the Spirit b of the LORD came upon Jephthah,c and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpel of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

JUDGES, XII.

B. C. 1143.

Nu.21.25. y Deut.2.36. Ge. 18.25. Ps.75.7. Ec. 12.14. a Ge. 16.5. 1Sa.24.12, 15. b ch.3.10. Jephthah

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seems to have been judge only of Northeast Israel. d Ge.28.20. 18a.1.11. Ec.5.2,4,5. 5 that which cometh forth, which shall come forth. Lev.27.2,3.

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30 And Jephthah vowed d a vowe unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that 5 what-f soever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of h Ammon, shall e surely be the LORD'S, 6 and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

32 ¶ So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them: and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

33 And he smote them from Aroer

even till thou come to Minnith, feven twenty cities, and unto 7 the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

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Eze.27.17.
or, Abel.
ver. 11.
Ex. 15.20.

ISa. 18.6.
Ps.68.25.
Jer.31.4.

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or, he had
not of his
own either

son or

daughter. Ge.37.29,34 Nu.30.2.

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34 T And Jephthah came to Miz-9 go and go pehg unto his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with h timbrels and with dances and she was his only child; 8 beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

The Ephraimites slain. me alone two months, that I may 9 go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who m did with her according to his vow which he had vowed and she knew no man. And it was a 10 custom in Israel,

40 That the daughters of Israel
went 11 yearly to 12 lament the
daughter of Jephthah the Gilead-
ite four days in a year.
CHAPTER XII.

The Ephraimites quarrelling with
Jephthah, and discerned by Shib-
boleth, are slain by the Gileadites.
a

AND the men of Ephraim 1 ga-
thered themselves together,
and went northward, and said unto
Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou
over to fight against the children
of Ammon, and didst not call us to
go with thee? we will burn thine
house upon thee with fire.

2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put b my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and 1Sa. 1.22,24, fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because 10 ordior, they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

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nance.

from year

to year.
or, talk
with.
ch.5.11.

(CHAP. 12.)
à ch.8.1.
were called.
1Sa. 19.5.

b

Job 13.14.

35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he renti his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble_me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot k go back. 36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according c ch.3.28. to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: Let

Ps. 119.109.

Jos.22.11.
2 Which

signifieth
a stream,
or, flood,
Ps.69,2,15.
Is.27.12.

5 And the Gileadites took the passages c of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

6 Then said they unto him, Say now 2 Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan. And there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Jephthah's death.

7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

8 T And after him Ibzan d of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

9 And he had thirty sons and thirty_daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem.

11 T And after him Elon, e a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon ƒ in the country of Zebulun.

13 T And after him Abdon g the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.

JUDGES, XIII. B. C. 1143.

d He seems

to have
been only
a civil
judge to do
justice in
North-east
Israel.

e A civil judge in North-east Israel.

f 1Ch.8.13.

g A civil judge also in Northeast Israel.

3 sons sons.

10.4.

14 And he had forty sons and h ch.5.10. thirty 3 nephews, that rode hon threescore and ten ass colts: and i ch.3. 13,27. he judged Israel eight years.

15 And Abdon the son of Hillel

the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount i of the Amalekites.

CHAPTER XIII.

1 Israel is in the hand of the Philistines. 24 Samson is born. ND the children of Israel 1 did

AND of Ignite the

5.14.

(CHAP. 13.)

1 added to commit, Rom.2.6.

a Jer. 13.23.

b This seems a partial captivity. 1Sa. 12.9.

LORD; and the LORD delivered bc them into c the hand of the Philistines forty years.

d Jos. 19.41.

2 T And there was a certain mane Lu.1.11,&c. of Zorah,d of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah: f 1.Sa. 1.11. and his wife was barren, and bare g Nu.6.2,&c.

not.

3 And the angel e of the LORD ap- h 1Ki.17.24. peared unto the woman, and said i Mat.28.3. unto her, Behold, now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and hear a son.

4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

2

Acts 6.15.

what shal be the manner of.

3 what shall

5 For lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and noƒ razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be ag Nazarite unto God from the womb and he shall be-k gin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

6 T Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, Ah_man of God came unto me, and his countenance i was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name :

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Manoah's sacrifice.

thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

8 T Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.

10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. 2 How shall we order the child, and 3 how shall we do unto him?

13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman, let her be

ware.

14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

15 T And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let / us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid 4 for thee.

16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.

17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What m is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass, we may do thee honour?

18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is 5 secret?

19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and n offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the

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Samson's marriage.

LORD ascended in the flame of the B. C. 1611.8T And after a time he returned altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell o on their faces to the ground.

21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoal knew that he was an angel of the LORD.

22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall p surely die because we have seen God.

o Lev.9.24. 1Ch.21.16, 26. Eze. 1.28. Mat.17.6. p Ex.33.20. Deut.5.26. 9 Ps. 25.14. 27.13. Pr.3.32. Jno.15.15.

23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burutr Heb.11.32. offering and a meat offering at our s 1Sa.3.19. hands, q neither would he have t ch.3.10. shewed us all these things, nor 6 Mahanehwould as at this time have told us such things as these.

dan, as
ch. 18.12.

u ch.18.11.
Jos. 15.33.
(CHAP. 14.)

24 T And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson. r And s the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. 25 And the Spirit t of the LORD a Ge.38.13. began to move him at times in 6 the camp of Dan between Zorahub

and Eshtoal.

CHAPTER XIV.

Samson desireth a wife of the Philis

tines.

ND Samson went down to a

Jos. 15.10.

Ge.34.1,2.

c Ge.24,3,4,

d Ge.34.14. Ex.34.12,

16.

Deut.7.3.

A Timnath, and saw a woman is right in

in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

mine eyes. e Jos.11.20. 2Ki.6.33. 2Ch.10.15.

22.7.

2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now, therefore, get her for me to fch.13, 1. wife. 2 in meeting

25.20.

him. g ch.13.25.

1Sa, 11.6.

35.

3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy h 1Sa. 17.34, brethren, c or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised d Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, i 1Sa. 14.25. Get her for me; for she 1 pleaseth ine well.

30. Pr.25.16. k Es. 1.7,&c.

Ec. 10. 19. I Pr. 1.6. Eze.17.2.

4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, e that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the f Philistines had dominion over m Ge.29.27. Israel. 2Ch.7.8.

Luke 14.7.

5T Then went Samson down, and 3 or, shirts. his father and his mother to Tim-n Ge.45.22. nath, and came to the vineyards o ch.16.5. of Timnath: and behold, a young Pr.1.10. lion roared 2 against him. p ch.15.6.

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possess us, or, impoverish us. ch. 16.15.

the rest

6 And the Spirit g of the LORD came mightily upon him, and ʼn he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his ? hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. 7 And he went down and talked with the woman; and she pleased │s ver.6. Samson well

or? of the. r Lu.11.8.

18.4.5.

to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. 9 And i he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

10 T Sɔ his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; k for so used the young men to do.

11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

12 And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle / unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven m days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty 3 sheets, and thirty change n of garments:

13 But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put fortli thy riddle, that we may hear it.

14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice o thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest p we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to 4 take that we have? is it not so?

16 And Samson's wife wept bcfore him, and said, Thou q dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

17 And she wept before him 5 the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it come to pass on the seventh day that he told her because r she lay sore upon him : 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.

19 T And s the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down

Samson is denied his wife.

JUDGES, XV, XVI. Samson slayeth the Philistines. are rulers f over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

20 But Samson's wife was given t to his companion, whom he had used as his friend."

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CHAPTER XV.

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Samson burneth the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands. UT it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, 1b will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

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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 your. selves.

13 And they spake unto him, sayblame-ing, No; but we will bind thee fast, less from. and deliver thee into their hand: or, torches. but surely we will not kill thee. 2Sa. 14.30. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

ch.14.15. d ver. 19.

4 went down.

2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly e ch. 14.4. hated her; therefore a I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? 1 take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

3 T And Samson said concerning them. Now shall I be 2 more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took 3 firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn b of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

f Ps. 106.41.

ch. 14.6. h Ps. 18.34. 5 were melted.

6

moist. Tan heap, two heaps. 8 i. e. the lifting up of the jawbone, or, the casting away of the jawbone.

i Ps.3.7.
9 or, Lehi.

6 Then the Philistines said,k Is.44.3. Who hath done this? And they Is.40.29. answered, Samson, the son-in-law 10 i. e. the of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt c her and her father with fire.

7 T And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

9 T Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.d

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

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14 ¶ And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him and g the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords & that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands 5 loosed from off his hands.

15 And he found a 6 new jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

16 And Samson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass, 7 heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and called that place 8 Ramath-lehi.

18 T And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou i 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 k water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Wherefore he called the name thereof, 10 En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

20 And he judged m Israel, in the days of the Philistines twenty years. CHAPTER XVI. Samson escapeth, and carrieth away the gates of Gaza.

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Delilah betrays Samson.

JUDGES, XVI. 3 And Samson lay till midnight, B. C. 1140. and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, 3 with the and the two posts, and went away with them, 3 bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

4 T And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a b woman 4 in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Lar.

b 1Ki.11.1.

4

or, by the
brook.

c ch.14.15.

Samson's imprisonment. he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

15 T And she said unto him, How d 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 Pr.2.16-19. pressed him daily with her words, 5.3-11. and urged him, so that his soul was 6.24-26. 10 vexed unto death;

7.21-27. 17 That he told e her all his heart, 1Cor.6.15- and said unto her, There hath not 18.come a razor upon mine head; for f I have been a Nazarite unto

5 And the lords of the Philistines
came up unto her, and said unto
her, c Entice him, and see wherein
his great strength lieth, and by
what means we may prevail against 5 or, humble.
him, that we may bind him to
5 afflict him, and we will give thee 6 moist, or,
every one of us, eleven hundred new cords.
pieces of silver.

6 T And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy Freat strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven 6 green withs that were never dried, then thall I be weak, and be as 7 another man.

one.

8 smelleth.

wherewith
work hath

not been
done.

d ch. 14. 16.

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 shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

19 And g she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave

8 Then the lords of the Philistines: brought up to her seven green 10 shortened. off the seven locks of his head

e Pr. 12.23.
Mi.7.5.
fch. 13.5.
Nu.6.5.

withs which had not been dried,
and she bound him with them.
9 (Now there were men lying in
wait, abiding with her in the
chamber.) And she said unto him,
The Philistines be upon thee, Sam-
son. And he brake the withis as ag Pr.7.26.
thread of tow is broken when it Ec.7.26.
toucheth the fire. So his strength |h Ho.7.9.

was not known.

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11 And he said unto her, If they k Jer.2.19. bind me fast with new ropes 9 that never were occupied, then shall I

be weak, and be as another man.

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or, as when.

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, Ih will go out, as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was i departed from him.

21 But the Philistines took him, and 11 put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and k bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prisonhouse.

22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again 12 after he was shaven.

23 Then the lords of the Philis

12 Delilah therefore took new 1 1Sa.5.2,&c.tines gathered them together for to ropes, and bound him therewith,

and said unto him, The Philistines mJob 30.9, 10.

Ps.35. 15, 16.

offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon l their god, and to rejoice: m for they

be upon thee, Samson. (And there Pr.24. 17,18. said, Our god hath delivered Sam

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13 And Delilah said unto Samson, 13 and who Hitherto thou hast mocked me, multiplied and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest he bound. a ch.9.27. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my p Heb.11.36. head with the web.

14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And

14 before
them.

son our enemy into our hand.

24 And when the people saw him, they praised n their god for they said, Our God hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country; 13 which slew many of us.

25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, o that they said, Call for Samson that he may make usp sport. And they called for Samson out of the prisonhouse; and he made 14 them

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