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

11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? [b]Wherefore then hast thou done thus unto us? And he answered them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

12 Again they said unto him, We are come to bind thee, and to deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:10 And so being our prisoner to punish him.
  2. Judges 15:11 Such was their gross ignorance, that they judged God’s great benefits to be a plague unto them.

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