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Judges 15:8
“He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.”
Verse in context — Judges 15
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
The 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.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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