World English Bible
"Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi."
— Judges 15:9, World English Bible
“Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.”
“Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. ”
“The Philistines went up and invaded Judah. They arrayed themselves for battle in Lehi.”
“Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread abroad.”
“Then the Philistines went and put up their tents in Judah, all round Lehi.”
“Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.”
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."
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."
They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves."