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Judges 15:9

Judges 15:9 is verse 9 of Judges chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.

Literally and spread out in Lehi

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King James Version

Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

World English Bible

Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

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Judges 15:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”

8 And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

9 Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.

10 “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”

11 In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.

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Cross-references

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Judges 15:17

And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

Judges 15:19

So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

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