Devine Scripture

Judges 15:15

Judges chapter 15 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And 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 · 1611

And 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 · 1901

And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.

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.