Judges 15:13-20

New International Version

¹³ “Agreed,” they answered. “We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes^(A) and led him up from the rock. ¹⁴ As he approached Lehi,^(B) the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him.^(C) The ropes on his arms became like charred flax,^(D) and the bindings dropped from his hands. ¹⁵ Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.^(E)

¹⁶ Then Samson said,

¹⁷ When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.^[b](G)

¹⁸ Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord,^(H) “You have given your servant this great victory.^(I) Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” ¹⁹ Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived.^(J) So the spring^(K) was called En Hakkore,^[c] and it is still there in Lehi.

²⁰ Samson led^[d] Israel for twenty years^(L) in the days of the Philistines.