Verse 16
Judges 15:16
Young's Literal Translation
16
And Samson saith, 'With a jaw-bone of the ass -- an ass upon asses -- with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.'
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹן בִּ/לְחִ֣י הַ/חֲמ֔וֹר חֲמ֖וֹר חֲמֹרָתָ֑יִם בִּ/לְחִ֣י הַ/חֲמ֔וֹר הִכֵּ֖יתִי אֶ֥לֶף אִֽישׁ
English Translation
And Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, I have killed a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey."
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Chapter 15 Context
1
And it cometh to pass, after [some] days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after hi...
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and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy co...
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3
And Samson saith of them, 'I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with...
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4
And Samson goeth and catcheth three hundred foxes, and taketh torches, and turneth tail unto tail, a...
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and kindleth fire in the torches, and sendeth [them] out into the standing corn of the Philistines,...
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6
And the Philistines say, 'Who hath done this?' And they say, 'Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, bec...
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And Samson saith to them, 'Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cea...
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8
And he smiteth them hip and thigh -- a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of th...
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9
And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,
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10
and the men of Judah say, 'Why have ye come up against us?' and they say, 'To bind Samson we have co...
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11
And three thousand men of Judah go down unto the cleft of the rock Etam, and say to Samson, 'Hast th...
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12
And they say to him, 'To bind thee we have come down -- to give thee into the hand of the Philistine...
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13
And they speak to him, saying, No, but we certainly bind thee, and have given thee into their hand,...
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14
He hath come unto Lehi -- and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him -- and the Spirit of Jehov...
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15
and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth wit...
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16
And Samson saith, 'With a jaw-bone of the ass -- an ass upon asses -- with a jaw-bone of the ass I h...
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And it cometh to pass when he finisheth speaking, that he casteth away the jaw-bone out of his hand,...
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and he thirsteth exceedingly, and calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, 'Thou -- Thou hast given by the h...
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19
And God (Elohim) cleaveth the hollow place which [is] in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he dri...
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20
And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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