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Men of Judah (to Samson): 11 Are you crazy? The Philistines are our masters! They have the upper hand. Don’t you know what you’re doing to us?

Samson: I’m only paying them back for what they have done to me.

Men of Judah: 12 We’ve come to capture you and take you to the Philistines.

Samson: Will you swear not to kill me yourselves?

Men of Judah: 13 We agree not to kill you, but we will tie you up and hand you over to them.

So they tied him with two new ropes and led him away from the cave near the rock of Etam.

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11 Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us?(A) What have you done to us?”

He answered, “I merely did to them what they did to me.”

12 They said to him, “We’ve come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.”

Samson said, “Swear to me(B) that you won’t kill me yourselves.”

13 “Agreed,” they answered. “We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes(C) and led him up from the rock.

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