Bound at Etam

9Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out at Lehi.

10And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” And they said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him just as he did to us.”

11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are ruling over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

12They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, to hand you over into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you yourselves will not attack me.”

13They said to him, “No, but we will surely bind you and hand you over into their hand; yet we will certainly not put you to death.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.