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Judges 15:14-16
International Standard Version
Judges 15:14-16
International Standard Version
Samson Kills 1,000 Philistines
14 When Samson[a] arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, so that the ropes that bound him were like flax that’s been burned by fire, and his bonds dissolved. 15 He happened upon a jawbone from a putrefying donkey, reached out to grab it, and killed 1,000 men with it. 16 Then Samson declared,
“With a jawbone from the donkey—
here a heap, there a pair of heaps—[b]
with the jawbone of the donkey
I’ve killed 1,000 men.”
Footnotes
- Judges 15:14 Lit. he
- Judges 15:16 I.e. multiple encounters with the Philistines; MT word heap is a word play on the identically spelled Heb. word donkey
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