Judges 15:15
What does Judges 15:15 mean?
A plain-English look at Judges 15:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it--a thousand men.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass, which lay there, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew with it a thousand men.
Context
v.14When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
v.15This passage
v.16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 7:16
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
- 1 Samuel 14:6
And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Jehovah will work for us; for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.
- Judges 4:21
Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
- 1 Samuel 14:14
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.
- Leviticus 26:8
And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
- Judges 3:31
And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also saved Israel.