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


In Context

5 and kindleth fire in the torches, and sendeth them out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burneth it from heap even unto standing corn, even unto vineyard — olive-yard.

6 And the Philistines say, 'Who hath done this?' And they say, 'Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;' and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.

7 And Samson saith to them, 'Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

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

9 And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

10 and the men of Judah say, 'Why have ye come up against us?' and they say, 'To bind Samson we have come up, 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 Webster Bible Translation 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 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 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.