15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed a thousand men with it. 16 Then Samson said:

With the jawbone of a donkey
I have piled them in heaps.
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have killed a thousand men.

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15 Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.(A)

16 Then Samson said,

“With a donkey’s jawbone
    I have made donkeys of them.[a](B)
With a donkey’s jawbone
    I have killed a thousand men.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:16 Or made a heap or two; the Hebrew for donkey sounds like the Hebrew for heap.