Verse 16
Judges 15:16
New King James Version
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And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain 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
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But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife...
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And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy...
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And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do the...
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4
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and pu...
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And when he had set the brands on fire, he
let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, an...
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Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timn...
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And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I...
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8
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the...
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9
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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10
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we c...
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11
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou...
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12
And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the...
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13
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: b...
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14
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mig...
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15
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men t...
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16
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a...
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And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his h...
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18
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance in...
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19
But God (Elohim) clave an hollow place that
was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when...
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And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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