Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he
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.
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.
Themes
Ass (donkey) » Domesticated » Jawbone of, used by samson with which to kill philistines
Miracles wrought through servants of God » Samson » Philistines killed
Philistines » Samson » Slew a thousand with the jawbone of an ass
Power » Small things God uses » A jaw-bone
Samson » Kills one-thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 15:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Samson Defeats The Philistines
14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, and the ropes on his arms were like flax (linen) that had been burned, and his bonds
Heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have struck down a thousand men.”
Cross References
Leviticus 26:8
Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will put ten thousand to flight; 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 is fighting for you, just as He
Judges 3:31
After Ehud came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistine men with an
Judges 4:21
But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, and came up quietly to him and drove the peg through 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 three hundred 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
Jonathan said to his young armor bearer, “Come, let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For there is nothing to prevent the Lord from saving, whether 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 [plow] furrow in a plot of land [the area of which a yoke of oxen could plow in a day].
1 Samuel 17:49-50
David put his hand into his bag and took out a stone and slung it, and it struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone penetrated his forehead, and he fell face down on the ground.
1 Corinthians 1:27-28
But God has selected [for His purpose] the foolish things of the world to shame the wise [revealing their ignorance], and God has selected [for His purpose] the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong [revealing their frailty].