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King James Version (1611 Edition)
Judges 15:15
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He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey; he reached down and took it and killed one thousand men with it.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men.
Samson found the jawbone of a dead donkey, took it, and killed a thousand men with it!
He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out his hand and took it and killed a thousand men with it.
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out with his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
And he found a new iawebone of an asse, and put forth his hand, and caught it, and slewe a thousand men therewith.
to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."
Samson glanced around and spotted the jawbone of a donkey. The jawbone had not yet dried out, so it was still hard and heavy. Samson grabbed it and started hitting Philistines—he killed a thousand of them!
He found a fresh donkey jawbone, took it in his hand, and with it he struck down a thousand men.
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew with it a thousand men.
Samson found a jawbone of a dead donkey and killed 1000 Philistine men with it.
And he found a hard jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.
Then he found a jawbone of a donkey that had recently died. He reached down and picked it up, and killed a thousand men with it.
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and took it. And he struck a thousand men with it.
And he founde the cheke bone of a deed asse: then put he forth his hande, and toke it, & slewe a thousande men therwith:
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.
And he founde a newe iawe bone of an Asse, & put foorth his hande, and caught it, and slue a thousande men therwith.
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
And he found the jaw-bone of an ass that had been cast away, and he put forth his hand and took it, and smote with it a thousand men.
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
And he took a cheke foundun, that is, the lowere cheke boon of an asse, that lay, `and he killyde `with it a thousinde men; and seide,
and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it -- a thousand men.
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
And he found a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
Then he found the jawbone of a recently killed donkey. He picked it up and killed 1,000 Philistines with it.
Samson found a jawbone of a donkey and took it in his hand. He killed 1,000 men with it.
Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.
Then found he the jawbone of an ass newly-slain, - so he thrust forth his hand, and took it, and smote therewith, a thousand men.
And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay there, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
new jawbone: Heb. moist
slew: Judges 3:31, Judges 4:21, Judges 7:16, Leviticus 26:8, Joshua 23:10, 1 Samuel 14:6, 1 Samuel 14:14, 1 Samuel 17:49, 1 Samuel 17:50, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:28
a thousand: Some would render the words aileph ish, "a chief;" but it is alluph, and not aileph, which signifies a chief; besides which, the Hebrew idiom would, even in that case, require it to be ish alluph, "a man, a chief," and not alluph ish, "a chief, a man." Add to which, that every version renders it "a thousand men."
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:22 - General Judges 14:6 - rent him Judges 16:30 - So the dead 1 Samuel 17:40 - staff 1 Corinthians 1:25 - the foolishness
Cross-References
After these things, the word of the LORD came vnto Abram in a vision, saying; Feare not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse? and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.
And he said vnto him; I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Caldees, to give thee this land, to inherit it.
And he said vnto him, Take me an heifer of three yeeres old, and a shee goat of three yeeres old, and a ramme of three yeeres old, and a turtle doue, and a yong pigeon.
And he said vnto Abram, Know of a surety, that thy seed shalbe a stranger, in a land that is not theirs, and shal serue them, and they shall afflict them foure hundred yeeres.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither againe: for the iniquitie of the Amorites is not yet full.
The Kenites, and the Kenizites, and the Kadmonites:
I am a stranger and a soiourner with you: giue me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
And after this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the caue of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And Isaac gaue vp the ghost and died, and was gathered vnto his people, being old and full of dayes: and his sonnes Esau and Iacob buried him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he found a new jawbone of an ass,.... That is, the jawbone of an ass lately killed, which perhaps had some of the flesh upon it, the blood or purulent matter on it; for Jarchi says, he had read in the books of physicians, that the word here used signifies the sanies or purulent matter of a wound; however, it was moist, and fresh, and so tough and strong, and would bear to strike with, and give hard blows with, when an old jawbone would have been dry and brittle; and perhaps the asses of those countries were larger than ours, and so their jawbones bigger and stronger:
and put forth his hand and took it; it lay near him, being so disposed by the providence of God at the time and place where his cords were loosed from him, and he reached and took it up:
and slew one thousand men therewith, such was his great strength, that every blow he gave in all probability killed a man; there have been wonderful things done by mighty warriors, but none like this; they have by the use of warlike weapons destroyed many, as with the sword or spear, but not with such an instrument. One of David's worthies slew three hundred men at one time with his spear, 1 Chronicles 11:11 and Scanderbeg with his sword slew great numbers of the Turks with his own hand at different times; what comes nearest to this is Shamgar's killing six hundred Philistines with an ox goad, Judges 3:31, this may be an emblem of the weak and contemptible means of the Gospel, the foolishness of preaching, by which Christ has conquered and subdued multitudes to himself.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Slew a thousand men therewith - Compare the marginal references. The Philistines, seized with a panic at seeing Samson suddenly burst his cords and rush at them, offered no resistance, but fell an easy prey to the blows of their mighty foe. Some perhaps were dashed down the cliffs in their flight.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 15:15. He found a new jaw-bone of an ass — I rather think that the word טריה teriyah, which we translate new, and the margin moist, should be understood as signifying the tabia or putrid state of the ass from which this jawbone was taken. He found there a dead ass in a state of putrefaction; on which account he could the more easily separate the jaw from its integuments; this was a circumstance proper to be recorded by the historian, and a mark of the providence of God. But were we to understand it of a fresh jaw-bone, very lately separated from the head of an ass, the circumstance does not seem worthy of being recorded.
With the jaw-bore of an ass, heaps upon heaps — I cannot see the propriety of this rendering of the Hebrew words בלחי החמור חמור חמרתים bilchi hachamor, chemor chamorathayim; I believe they should be translated thus: -
"With the jaw-bone of this ass,
an ass (the foal) of two asses;
"With the jaw-bone of this ass
I have slain a thousand men."
This appears to have been a triumphal song on the occasion; and the words are variously rendered both by the versions, and by expositors.
