Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith. 16 Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."
Cross References
Leviticus 26:8
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Joshua 23:10
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an oxgoad: and he also saved Israel.
Judges 4:21
Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
Judges 7:16
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
1 Samuel 14:6
Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh 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 as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.
1 Samuel 17:49-50
David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
1 Corinthians 1:27-28
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;