English Bible Presentation Sharing - Judges Book, chapter 15, verse 30 in Ylt Version

Judges 15 : 1 (YLT)

And it cometh to pass, after *some days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, `I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;` and her father hath not permitted him to go in,

Judges 15 : 2 (YLT)

and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister -- the young one -- better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.`

Judges 15 : 3 (YLT)

And Samson saith of them, `I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.`

Judges 15 : 4 (YLT)

And Samson goeth and catcheth three hundred foxes, and taketh torches, and turneth tail unto tail, and putteth a torch between the two tails, in the midst,

Judges 15 : 5 (YLT)

and kindleth fire in the torches, and sendeth *them out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burneth it from heap even unto standing corn, even unto vineyard -- olive-yard.

Judges 15 : 6 (YLT)

And the Philistines say, `Who hath done this?` And they say, `Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;` and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.

Judges 15 : 7 (YLT)

And Samson saith to them, `Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!`

Judges 15 : 8 (YLT)

And he smiteth them hip and thigh -- a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

Judges 15 : 9 (YLT)

And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

Judges 15 : 10 (YLT)

and the men of Judah say, `Why have ye come up against us?` and they say, `To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.`

Judges 15 : 11 (YLT)

And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, `Hast thou now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? and what *is this thou hast done to us?` And he saith to them, `As they did to me, so I did to them.`

Judges 15 : 12 (YLT)

And they say to him, `To bind thee we have come down -- to give thee into the hand of the Philistines.` And Samson saith to them, `Swear to me, lest ye fall upon me yourselves.`

Judges 15 : 13 (YLT)

And they speak to him, saying, No, but we certainly bind thee, and have given thee into their hand, and we certainly do not put thee to death;` and they bind him with two thick bands, new ones, and bring him up from the rock.

Judges 15 : 14 (YLT)

He hath come unto Lehi -- and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him -- and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which *are on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands,

Judges 15 : 15 (YLT)

and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it -- a thousand men.

Judges 15 : 16 (YLT)

And Samson saith, `With a jaw-bone of the ass -- an ass upon asses -- with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.`

Judges 15 : 17 (YLT)

And it cometh to pass when he finisheth speaking, that he casteth away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and calleth that place Ramath-Lehi;

Judges 15 : 18 (YLT)

and he thirsteth exceedingly, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Thou -- Thou hast given by the hand of Thy servant this great salvation; and now, I die with thirst, and have fallen into the hand of the uncircumcised.`

Judges 15 : 19 (YLT)

And God cleaveth the hollow place which *is in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinketh, and his spirit cometh back, and he reviveth; therefore hath one called its name `The fountain of him who is calling,` which is in Lehi unto this day.

Judges 15 : 20 (YLT)

And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.