They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Pelishtim. Shimshon said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.
Then three thousand men of Yehudah went down to the cleft of the rock of `Etam, and said to Shimshon, *Don't you know that the Pelishtim are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?* He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
Then Zevach and Tzalmunnah said, Rise you, and fall on us; for as the man is, so is his strength. Gid`on arose, and killed Zevach and Tzalmunnah, and took the crescents that were on their camels' necks.