15Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.


In Context

12 They said to him, "We've come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said, "Swear to me that you won't kill me yourselves."

13 "Agreed," they answered. "We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

14 As 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.

15 Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

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

17 When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.

Judges 15:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:15And he found a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:15and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it — a thousand men.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.