16And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.


In Context

13 They said: We will not kill thee: but we will deliver thee up bound. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him from the rock Etam.

14 Now 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.

15 And finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of an ass which lay there, catching it up, be slew therewith a thousand men.

16 And he said: With the jawbone of an ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.

17 And when he had ended these words singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.

18 Arid being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.

Judges 15:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:16Then Samson said, "With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16And Samson said, |With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men.|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16And Samson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16Samson said, |With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16And Samson saith, 'With a jaw-bone of the ass — an ass upon asses — with a jaw-bone of the ass I have smitten a thousand men.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps on heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.