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Judges 15:15-20

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15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached * out and took it and killed 1a thousand men with it.
16 Then Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, Heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have killed a thousand men."
17 When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
18 Then he became very thirsty, and he 2called to the LORD and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"
19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, 3his strength returned and he revived. Therefore * he named * it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 So 4he judged Israel twenty years in 5the days of the Philistines.
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Judges 15:15-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 15

This chapter relates, that Samson being denied his wife, did by a strange stratagem burn the corn fields, vineyards, and olives of the Philistines, Jud 15:1-5, and that because of their burning her and her father, he made a great slaughter of them, Jud 15:6-8, which brought the Philistines against the men of Judah, who took Samson and bound him, to deliver him to the Philistines, when he, loosing himself, slew a thousand of them with the jaw bone of an ass, Jud 15:9-17 and being athirst, God in a wonderful manner supplied him with water, Jud 15:18-20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 5

  • 1. Leviticus 26:8; Joshua 23:10
  • 2. Judges 16:28
  • 3. Isaiah 40:29
  • 4. Judges 16:31; Hebrews 11:32
  • 5. Judges 13:1

Footnotes 9

  • [a]. Lit "stretched out his hand"
  • [b]. Lit "smote"
  • [c]. Lit "Heap, two heaps;" Heb is same root as donkey
  • [d]. Lit "smitten"
  • [e]. I.e. the high place of the jawbone
  • [f]. Or "I shall...uncircumcised"
  • [g]. Or "or"
  • [h]. Lit "spirit"
  • [i]. I.e. the spring of him who called
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