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16 Then Samson declared,

“With a jawbone from the donkey—
    here a heap, there a pair of heaps—[a]
with the jawbone of the donkey
    I’ve killed 1,000 men.”

17 When he finally finished bragging, he discarded the jawbone and named that place “Jawbone Heights.”[b]

18 Aferward, he became thirsty, called out to the Lord, and told him, “So, you provided this great deliverance at the hands[c] of your servant, but now I’m to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:16 I.e. multiple encounters with the Philistines; MT word heap is a word play on the identically spelled Heb. word donkey
  2. Judges 15:17 Lit. Ramath-lehi
  3. Judges 15:18 Lit. hand