JUDGES 15:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.”
Three thousand Judahite men descend to bind Samson—military force deployed against kinsman. Their reproach—"Do you not know the Philistines rule us?"—frames his actions as destabilizing. The binding by tribe represents self-induced captivity: he permits restraint to avoid endangering Judah. This voluntary submission differs from his later Philistine captivity, suggesting Samson retains moral capacity to subordinate personal will to collective welfare.
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