Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed 1,000 men with it.

International Standard Version

He happened upon a jawbone from a putrefying donkey, reached out to grab it, and killed 1,000 men with it.

A Conservative Version

And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men with it.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out his hand and took it and killed a thousand men with it.

Bible in Basic English

And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And he will find the jaw-bone of an ass, fresh, and he will stretch forth his hand and take it and will strike with it a thousand men.

King James 2000

And he found a new jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men with it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey; he reached down and took it and killed one thousand men with it.

Modern King James verseion

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he found a jawbone of a ratten ass, and put forth his hand and caught it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

NET Bible

He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

New Heart English Bible

And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

The Emphasized Bible

Then found he the jawbone of an ass newly-slain, - so he thrust forth his hand, and took it, and smote therewith, a thousand men.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he found
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

a new
טרי 
Tariy 
Usage: 2

לחי 
L@chiy 
Usage: 21

of an ass
חמר חמור 
Chamowr 
ass
Usage: 96

and put forth
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

and took
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

it, and slew
נכה 
Nakah 
Usage: 501

אלף 
'eleph 
Usage: 504

men
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

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Easton

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

Samson Defeats The Philistines

14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds dropped from his hands. 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it. 16 Then Samson said,
“With the jawbone of a donkey,
Heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have killed a thousand men.”


Cross References

Leviticus 26:8

five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

Joshua 23:10

One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you.

Judges 3:31

After him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel.

Judges 4:21

But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.

Judges 7:16

He divided the 300 men into three companies, and he put trumpets and empty pitchers into the hands of all of them, with torches inside the pitchers.

1 Samuel 14:6

Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.”

1 Samuel 14:14

That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a furrow in an acre of land.

1 Samuel 17:49-50

And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground.

1 Corinthians 1:27-28

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,

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