6. The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because the Timnite took the bride of Samson and gave her to his best man.”So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire.
7. Samson said to them, “Because you have done this, I will take revenge on you, and afterwards I will stop.”
8. He struck them down with a mighty blow, then went to live in a cave in Etam Rock.
9. Then the Philistines went up and set up camp in Judah. They deployed against Lehi.
10. The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”They said, “It is to take Samson prisoner that we have come up, to do to him what he did to us.”
11. So three thousand men from Judah went to the cave in Etam Rock and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are ruling us? Why have you done this to us?”He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
12. They said to him, “We have come to take you prisoner, to give you into the hands of the Philistines.”Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me.”
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.