Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands. 15 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. 16 And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:8
Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.
Joshua 23:10
One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you.
Judges 3:31
And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.
Judges 4:21
Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end.
Judges 7:16
Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.
1 Samuel 14:6
And Jonathan said to his young servant who had his arms, Come, let us go over to the armies of these men who have no circumcision: it may be that the Lord will give us help, for there is no limit to his power; the Lord is able to give salvation by a great army or by a small band.
1 Samuel 14:14
And at their first attack, Jonathan and his servant put to the sword about twenty men, all inside the space of half an acre of land.
1 Samuel 17:49-50
And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.
1 Corinthians 1:27-28
But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;