Verse 16

Judges 15:16

Free Bible Version

16 Then Samson declared, “With a donkey's jawbone I have piled the dead into heaps. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed 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 Some time later when the wheat was being harvested, Samson went to pay his wife a visit, taking with... Focus ↗

2 “I thought you must totally hate her, so I gave her to your best man,” he told Samson. “But her youn... Focus ↗

3 “This time I can't be blamed for the trouble I'm going to cause the Philistines,” Samson declared. Focus ↗

4 He went and caught three hundred foxes and tied their tails together, two by two. Focus ↗

5 He attached a torch to each of the tied tails and set them on fire. Then he let them loose in the gr... Focus ↗

6 “Who did this?” the Philistines asked. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the man from Timnah,” they... Focus ↗

7 Samson told them, “If this is the way you're going to act, then I won't stop until I take my revenge... Focus ↗

8 He attacked them violently, killing them, and then left to go and live in a cave at the rock of Etam... Focus ↗

9 So the Philistine army came and camped in Judah, drawn up for battle near Lehi. Focus ↗

10 The people of Judah asked, “Why have you invaded us?” “We've come to capture Samson, to do to him wh... Focus ↗

11 Three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam and asked Samson, “Don't you unders... Focus ↗

12 “Well, we've come to take you prisoner and hand you over to the Philistines,” they told him. “Just s... Focus ↗

13 “No, we won't,” they assured him. “We'll only tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines. We ce... Focus ↗

14 When Samson got close to Lehi, the Philistines ran towards him, shouting at him. But the Spirit of t... Focus ↗

15 He grabbed the fresh jawbone of a donkey, using it to kill a thousand Philistines. Focus ↗

16 Then Samson declared, “With a donkey's jawbone I have piled the dead into heaps. With a donkey's jaw...

17 After Samson had finished his speech, he threw away the jawbone, and he named the place Hill of the... Focus ↗

18 Samson was now extremely thirsty, and he called out to the Lord, saying, “You have achieved this ama... Focus ↗

19 So God (Elohim) split open a rock seam in Lehi, and water came out of it. Samson drank and his stren... Focus ↗

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