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


In Context

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.

18 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, |You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And 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.

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 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.