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Text -- Judges 15:1-4 (NET)
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Samson Versus the Philistines
15:1 Sometime later , during the wheat harvest , Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride . He said to her father, “I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom !” But her father would not let him enter .
15:2 Her father said , “I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man . Her younger sister is more attractive than she is . Take her instead !”
15:3 Samson said to them, “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm !”
15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals and got some torches . He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair .
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NET Notes: Jdg 15:1 Heb “I will go to my wife in the bedroom.” The Hebrew idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el...
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NET Notes: Jdg 15:2 Heb “Is her younger sister not better than her? Let her [i.e., the younger sister] be yours instead of her [i.e., Samson’s ‘bride...
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