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The Israelites again offended the LORD, who therefore delivered them into the power of the Philistines for forty years. (Judges 13, 1)
As for the son you will conceive and bear, no razor shall touch his head, for this boy is to be consecrated to God from the womb. It is he who will begin the deliverance of Israel from the power of the Philistines." (Judges 13, 5)
His father and mother said to him, "Can you find no wife among your kinsfolk or among all our people, that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson answered his father, "Get her for me, for she pleases me." (Judges 14, 3)
Now his father and mother did not know that this had been brought about by the LORD, who was providing an opportunity against the Philistines; for at that time they had dominion over Israel. (Judges 14, 4)
Samson said to them, "This time the Philistines cannot blame me if I harm them." (Judges 15, 3)
He then kindled the torches and set the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning both the shocks and the standing grain, and the vineyards and olive orchards as well. (Judges 15, 5)
When the Philistines asked who had done this, they were told, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because his wife was taken and given to his best man." So the Philistines went up and destroyed her and her family by fire. (Judges 15, 6)
The Philistines went up and, from a camp in Judah, deployed against Lehi. (Judges 15, 9)
Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cavern in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are our rulers? Why, then, have you done this to us?" He answered them, "As they have done to me, so have I done to them." (Judges 15, 11)
They said to him, "We have come to take you prisoner, to deliver you over to the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves." (Judges 15, 12)
When he reached Lehi, and the Philistines came shouting to meet him, the spirit of the LORD came upon him: the ropes around his arms became as flax that is consumed by fire and his bonds melted away from his hands. (Judges 15, 14)
Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines. (Judges 15, 20)