Gen Z: Judges 15
1So, like, after a bit, during wheat harvest, Samson rolls up to his wife with a kid; he’s like, "I’m tryna see my wifey." But her dad was like, "Nah fam, you can’t go in."
2Her dad was all, "I thought you were totally over her; so I gave her to your homie. Isn’t her younger sister cuter? Just take her instead, fr."
3Samson was like, "Now I’m gonna be less sus than the Philistines, even if I’m mad at them."
4Then Samson went and caught 300 foxes, lit them up with firebrands, and tied them tail to tail, putting a firebrand in between two tails.
5After he set the firebrands ablaze, he let them loose into the Philistines' crops, burning up their harvests, vineyards, and olives.
6The Philistines were like, "Who did this?" They found out it was Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, 'cause he took his wife and gave her to his buddy. So they rolled up and burned her and her dad.
7Samson told them, "Even though you did this, I’m still gonna get my revenge on you, then I’m done."
8He wrecked them hard, went down, and chilled on top of the rock Etam.
9Then the Philistines came up, set up camp in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.
10The dudes from Judah were like, "Why you coming at us?" They replied, "We’re here to tie up Samson and do him dirty like he did us."
11So, 3,000 men from Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, "You know the Philistines are in charge, right? What’s up with what you did?" He was like, "I did to them what they did to me."
12They told him, "We’re here to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said, "Promise me you won’t jump me yourselves."
13They were like, "Nah, we’ll just tie you up and deliver you to them, but we won’t kill you." So they bound him with two new cords and took him up from the rock.
14When he got to Lehi, the Philistines shouted at him, but the Spirit of the Lord hit him hard, and the cords on his arms were like burnt flax, and he broke free.
15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, grabbed it, and took out a thousand dudes with it.
16Samson was like, "With this jawbone, I’ve stacked bodies on bodies, I just took out a thousand men."
17Once he finished talking, he tossed the jawbone aside and called that spot Ramath–lehi.
18He was super thirsty and called out to the Lord, saying, "You gave me this epic win, but am I gonna die of thirst and fall into the hands of these uncircumcised peeps?"
19But God made a sweet spot in the jawbone, and water flowed out; after he drank, he felt revived, so he named it En–hakkore, and it’s still there in Lehi today.
20And he judged Israel for twenty years during the Philistine era.