Judges 15:15-16

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."

Judges 15:15-16 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.

Cross References

• 1. Leviticus 26:8; Joshua 23:10

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "stretched out his hand"
• [b]. Lit "smote"
• [c]. Lit "Heap, two heaps;" Heb is same root as donkey
• [d]. Lit "smitten"