Holy Scripture

Judges 15:10

A church father on this verse
“But Samson did not forgive the Philistines their wrong, nor rest content with this measure of vengeance, but he slew them with a great slaughter, and many of them fell by the sword. And he retired to Etam, a torrent in the wilderness, where was a rock, a stronghold of the tribe of Judah. Now the Philistines, not darin…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Letter 19: To Vigilius

Source: Septuagint

Original

10And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? and the Philistines said, We are come up to bind Samson, and to do to him as he has done to us.

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In context

8And he smote them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.

9And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves abroad in Lehi.

— Judges 15:10 —

11And the three thousand men of Judah went down to the hole of the rock Etam, and they said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? and what is this that thou hast done to us? and Samson said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

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

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