8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.


In Context

5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

7 And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

10 And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come to bind Samson, to do to him as he hath done to us.

Judges 15:8 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:8He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8And he smiteth them hip and thigh — a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelled in the top of the rock Etam.