In Context

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.|

17 When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ra'math-le'hi.

18 And he was very thirsty, and he called on the LORD and said, |Thou hast granted this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and shall I now die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?|

Judges 15:16 in Other Translations