Parallel Verses

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.

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 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 He came to Lehi, and the Philistines shouted against him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the cords on his arms became as flax that has been burned with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. 15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it. 16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass I have killed a thousand men.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:8

And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight. And your enemies shall fall by the sword in front of you.

Joshua 23:10

One man of you shall chase a thousand. For Jehovah your God is He who fights for you, as He has promised you.

Judges 3:31

And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. And he also delivered Israel.

Judges 4:21

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a peg of the tent and put a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the peg into his temple, and beat it into the ground. For he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

Judges 7:16

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies. And he put a ram's horn in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers.

1 Samuel 14:6

And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised ones. It may be that Jehovah will work for us. For there is no restraint to Jehovah, to save by many or by few.

1 Samuel 14:14

And this was the first blow, when Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck about twenty men in about half of a furrow of an acre of a field.

1 Samuel 17:49-50

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

1 Corinthians 1:27-28

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

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