14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes which were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.


In Context

11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, |Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?| And he said to them, |As they did to me, so have I done to them.|

12 And they said to him, |We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.| And Samson said to them, |Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.|

13 They said to him, |No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands; we will not kill you.| So they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes which were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.

15 And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.

16 And Samson said, |With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men.|

Judges 15:14 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:14As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came upon him in power. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:14[And] when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that [were] upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:14Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as the flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:14When 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:14When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the spirit of the LORD 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:14And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his the hands.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:14He hath come unto Lehi — and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him — and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which are on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:14And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the cords that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.