Hakim-hakim 15:16

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Berkatalah Simson: "Dengan rahang keledai bangsa keledai itu kuhajar, dengan rahang keledai seribu orang kupukul."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Berkatalah Simson: "Dengan rahang keledai bangsa keledai itu kuhajar, dengan rahang keledai seribu orang kupukul."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Setelah itu maka kata Simson: Dengan sebatang tulang rahang keledai satu pasukan, dua pasukan; dengan sebatang tulang rahang keledai sudah kualahkan seribu orang.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Then the Philistines came vp, and pytched in Iuda, and camped in Lehi. ¹⁰ And the men of Iuda sayde: Why are ye come vp vnto vs? They aunswered: To bynde Samson are we come vp, & to do to hym, as he hath done to vs. ¹¹ Then three thonsande men of Iuda went to the toppe of the rocke Etam, & sayde to Samson: Wottest thou not that the Philistines are rulers ouer vs? Wherfore then hast thou done thus vnto vs? He aunswered them: As they dyd vnto me, so haue I done vnto them. ¹² And they sayd vnto him agayne: We are come to bynde thee, and to deliuer thee into ye hande of the Philistines. And Samson said vnto them: Sweare vnto me, that ye shall not fal vpon me your selues. ¹³ They aunswered him, saying: No, but we will bynde thee, & delyuer thee vnto their handes: but we wyll not kyll thee. And they bounde hym with two new cordes, and brought him from the rocke. ¹⁴ And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines showted agaynst him: And the spirite of the Lord came vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes, became as flaxe that was burnt with fire, for the bandes loosed from of his handes. ¹⁵ And he founde a newe iawe bone of an Asse, & put foorth his hande, and caught it, and slue a thousande men therwith. ¹⁶ And Samson sayde: With the iawe of an Asse, heapes vpon heapes: with the iawe of an Asse haue I slayne a thousande men. ¹⁷ And when he had left speakyng, he cast away the iawe bone out of his hande, and called the place Ramath Lehi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with the jawbone: There is here a fine paronomasia upon the word chamor, "an ass," which also signifies "a heap;" bilchee hachamor, chamor chamorathayim, "With the jaw-bone of an ass, a heap upon two heaps."

heaps upon heaps: Heb. an heap, two heaps, Judges 15:16

Reciprocal: Judges 16:24 - which slew many of us 1 Samuel 17:40 - staff 1 Corinthians 1:25 - the foolishness

Cross-References

Genesis 15:5
And he brought hym out, and sayde: loke vp vnto heauen, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And he sayde vnto hym: euen so shall thy seede be.

Genesis 15:8
And he sayde: Lorde God wherby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?

Genesis 15:9
He aunswered vnto hym: Take an Heyfer of three yere olde, & a she Goate of three yere olde, and a three yere olde Ramme, a turtle Doue also, & a young Pigeon.

Genesis 15:11
And when the foules fell on the carkases, Abram droue them away.

Exodus 12:40
The dwellyng of the chyldren of Israel which they dwelled in Egypt, was foure hundred and thirtie yeres.

1 Kings 21:26
He dyd exceeding abhominablie in folowing foule idols, according to all thinges as dyd the Ammorites whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel.

Daniel 8:23
And in the ende of their kingdome, when the wicked are come to the full, a king of a fierce countenaunce, and vnderstanding harde sentences, shall stand vp.

1 Thessalonians 2:16
And hynder vs to speake to the gentiles that they myght be saued, to fulfyll their sinnes alway. For the wrath [of God] is come on them to the vtmost.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samson said,.... In a kind of triumphant song:

with the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps; that is, with such an instrument he had slain heaps of men, who lay dead in heaps upon one another; in the words for an "ass", and for an "heap", is an elegant "paronomosia", not easy to be expressed in our language:

with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men: this he said not in a proud and haughty manner, ascribing it to himself, as Josephus suggests m, since he takes notice of the mean instrument he used; which showed that he was sensible it was not done by his own power, but by the power of God, which enabled him by such weak means to do such wonderful things.

m Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is a play upon the word, three times repeated, which means both “an ass” and also “a heap.” The spirit of riddle-making Judges 14:12, Judges 14:18 is apparent in this song of triumph (compare Judges 5:1; Exodus 15:1; 1 Samuel 18:6-7).