‘ And God clave the hollow place that was in Lehi and there came water from it, and when he had drunk his spirit returned and he revived. That is why the name of the place was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi up to this day.'
En-hakkore means ‘the spring of him who called'. From a hollow place in Lehi God by some means caused a spring to flow out, and Samson was thus able to drink and revive himself.
It was ‘God' not Yahweh who responded. Was this because he had broken his vow by using the jawbone of a dead ass? In Israel's eyes and the writer's eyes that would be no light thing. Or was it due to his petulant attitude? Or was the writer signalling that a new chapter was beginning in Samson's life? His love of women would prove his downfall and the writer traces it back to this moment. From now on he would go continually downwards. Possibly all were true. He had perhaps begun to see himself as able to do anything he wanted. And that is always dangerous for a man.