Judges 15:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He lit the torches and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:6 : 6 “If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.
  • 2 Sam 14:30 : 30 So he said to his servants,“Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s portion of the field on fire.

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  • Judg 15:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3Samson said to them,“This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!”

    4Samson 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.

  • Judg 15:6-17
    12 verses
    83%

    6The Philistines asked,“Who did this?” They were told,“Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because the Timnite took Samson’s bride and gave her to his best man.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father.

    7Samson said to them,“Because you did this, I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting.”

    8He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

    9The Philistines went up and invaded Judah. They arrayed themselves for battle in Lehi.

    10The men of Judah said,“Why are you attacking us?” The Philistines said,“We have come up to take Samson prisoner so we can do to him what he has done to us.”

    11Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson,“Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them,“I have only done to them what they have done to me.”

    12They said to him,“We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them,“Promise me you will not kill me.”

    13They said to him,“We promise! We will only take you prisoner and hand you over to them. We promise not to kill you.” They tied him up with two brand new ropes and led him up from the cliff.

    14When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the LORD’s Spirit empowered him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in fire, and they melted away from his hands.

    15He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

    16Samson then said,“With the jawbone of a donkey I have left them in heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck down a thousand men!”

    17When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone down and named that place Ramath Lehi.

  • Judg 15:1
    73%

    1Samson Versus the Philistines 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 sleep with my bride in her bedroom!” But her father would not let him enter.

  • Judg 14:15
    72%

    15On the fourth day they said to Samson’s bride,“Trick your husband into giving the solution to the riddle. If you refuse, we will burn up you and your father’s family. Did you invite us here to make us poor?”

  • Judg 16:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7Samson said to her,“If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man.”

    8So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and she tied him up with them.

    9They hid in the bedroom and then she said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He snapped the bowstrings as easily as a thread of yarn snaps when it is put close to fire. The secret of his strength was not discovered.

  • Judg 14:4-7
    4 verses
    72%

    4Now his father and mother did not realize this was the LORD’s doing, because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines(for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

    5Samson went down to Timnah. When he approached the vineyards of Timnah, he saw a roaring young lion attacking him.

    6The LORD’s Spirit empowered him and he tore the lion in two with his bare hands as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

    7Samson continued on down to Timnah and spoke to the girl. In his opinion, she was just the right one.

  • Judg 14:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19The LORD’s Spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.

    20Samson’s bride was then given to his best man.

  • Judg 16:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29Samson took hold of the two middle pillars that supported the temple and he leaned against them, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other.

    30Samson said,“Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life.

  • 1 Chr 14:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.

    13The Philistines again raided the valley.

  • Exod 22:6
    70%

    6“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

  • Judg 16:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Samson’s Death and Burial The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said,“Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”

    24When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,“Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!”

  • Judg 14:1
    69%

    1Samson’s Unconsummated Marriage Samson went down to Timnah, where a Philistine girl caught his eye.

  • 2 Sam 14:30
    69%

    30So he said to his servants,“Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set Joab’s portion of the field on fire.

  • Judg 16:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20She said,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He woke up and thought,“I will do as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not realize that the LORD had left him.

    21The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

  • Judg 16:12
    69%

    12So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!”(The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) But he tore the ropes from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

  • Judg 16:14
    69%

    14So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom, fastened it with the pin, and said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He woke up and tore away the pin of the loom and the fabric.

  • Judg 16:27
    68%

    27Now the temple was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were there. There were three thousand men and women on the roof watching Samson entertain.

  • Ps 83:14
    68%

    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

  • 1 Sam 30:16
    68%

    16So he took David down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

  • Isa 9:18
    68%

    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

  • Judg 16:3
    68%

    3Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.

  • Ezek 15:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?

    6“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire– so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem as fuel.

  • Num 31:10
    68%

    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

  • Ps 105:33
    68%

    33He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.

  • Judg 14:9
    67%

    9He scooped it up with his hands and ate it as he walked along. When he returned to his father and mother, he offered them some and they ate it. But he did not tell them he had scooped the honey out of the lion’s carcass.

  • 2 Sam 5:21
    67%

    21The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.

  • 1 Sam 7:10
    67%

    10As Samuel was offering burnt offerings, the Philistines approached to do battle with Israel. But on that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines. He caused them to panic, and they were defeated by Israel.