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Judges 15:11

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Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?”
He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

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Judges 15:11 in other translations

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

Judges 15:11 · American Standard Version

Judges 15:11 in context

  1. 9Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
  2. 10The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”
    They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
  3. 11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?”
    He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
  4. 12They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.”
    Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
  5. 13They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.