Judges 15:15
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| Overview - Judges 15 | |
| 1 | Samson is denied his wife. |
| 3 | He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands. |
| 6 | His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines. |
| 7 | Samson smites them hip and thigh. |
| 9 | He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines. |
| 14 | He kills them with a jawbone. |
| 18 | God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi. |
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Judges 15:15 (King James Version)
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
- new jaw-bone
- Hebrew moist. slew.
- 3:31 4:21 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."