1. Later, during the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit the young woman he thought was still his wife. He brought along a young goat as a gift and said to her father, “I want to go into my wife's bedroom.”“You can't do that,” he replied.
10. The people of Judah asked, “Why have you invaded our land?”The Philistines answered, “We've come to get Samson. We're going to do the same things to him that he did to our people.”
11. Three thousand men from Judah went to the cave at Etam Rock and said to Samson, “Don't you know that the Philistines rule us, and they will punish us for what you did?”“I was only getting even with them,” Samson replied. “They did the same things to me first.”
12. “We came here to tie you up and turn you over to them,” said the men of Judah.“I won't put up a fight,” Samson answered, “but you have to promise not to hurt me yourselves.”
13-14. “We promise,” the men said. “We will only tie you up and turn you over to the Philistines. We won't kill you.” Then they tied up his hands and arms with two brand-new ropes and led him away from Etam Rock.When the Philistines saw that Samson was being brought to their camp at Jawbone, they started shouting and ran towards him. But the Lord's Spirit took control of Samson, and Samson broke the ropes, as though they were pieces of burnt cloth.