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


In Context

12 They said to him, |We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.| Samson said to them, |Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.|

13 They spoke to him, saying, |No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you.| They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

14 When 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.

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

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

17 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.

Judges 15:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

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 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.