13. They said to him, “No, we will bind you securely and give you into their hands, but we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes and took him away from the rock.
14. He came to Lehi, and the Philistines shouted as they approached him. Then the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burned flax and the ties on his hands dissolved.
15. Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and with it struck down a thousand men.
16. Samson said, “With a jawbone of a donkey,heaps upon heaps.With a jawbone of a donkeyI have slain a thousand men.”
17. When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone away and called that place Ramath Lehi.
18. He was very thirsty, and he called out to the Lord, “You gave this great deliverance through Your servant, but now may I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19. So God split open the basin at Lehi, and water flowed out of it. He drank, was refreshed, and revived. Because of this he called the place En Hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20. Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.