7Samson said to them, Though you have done this, yet I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
9The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10The men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? They answered, We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.
11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us? He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
12They said to him, We have come down to bind you, so we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.
13They said to him, No; but we will bind you tightly and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes on his arms became like flax burned with fire, and his bonds loosed from his hands.
15He found a new jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
16Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of a donkey have I killed a thousand men.
17When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.