Judges 15:9
New International Version
The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi.

New Living Translation
The Philistines retaliated by setting up camp in Judah and spreading out near the town of Lehi.

English Standard Version
Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.

King James Bible
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

New King James Version
Now the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and deployed themselves against Lehi.

New American Standard Bible
Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

NASB 1995
Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

NASB 1977
Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah and spread out in Lehi.

Amplified Bible
Then the [army of the] Philistines came up and camped in [the tribal territory of] Judah, and overran Lehi (Jawbone).

Christian Standard Bible
The Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and raided Lehi.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and raided Lehi.

American Standard Version
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the Philistines came up and camped in Yehuda

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Juda, and spread themselves abroad in Lechi.

Contemporary English Version
But it wasn't long before the Philistines invaded Judah and set up a huge army camp at Jawbone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread.

English Revised Version
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Philistines came, camped in Judah, and overran Lehi.

Good News Translation
The Philistines came and camped in Judah, and attacked the town of Lehi.

International Standard Version
In response, the Philistines went up, encamped in the territory of Judah, and raided Lehi.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves against Lehi.

Literal Standard Version
And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

Majority Standard Bible
Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.

New American Bible
The Philistines went up and encamped in Judah, deploying themselves against Lehi.

NET Bible
The Philistines went up and invaded Judah. They arrayed themselves for battle in Lehi.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and made a raid on Lehi.

New Heart English Bible
Then the Philistines went up, and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

World English Bible
Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

Young's Literal Translation
And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

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Context
Samson's Revenge
8And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam. 9Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi. 10“Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”…

Cross References
Judges 15:8
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

Judges 15:10
"Why have you attacked us?" said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, "We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us."


Treasury of Scripture

Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

Lehi

Judges 15:17,19
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi…

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Judges 15
1. Samson is denied his wife
3. He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands
6. His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines
8. Samson smites them hip and thigh
9. He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines
14. He kills them with a jawbone
18. God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi














(9) Then the Philistines went up.--They "went up" in hostile array against the hill-country of Judea to take vengeance for the dreadful injury which Samson had inflicted on them.

Spread themselves in Lehi.--The use of the name before the incident from which a place is said to have received the name is found also in the case of Hormah (Numbers 14:45; Numbers 21:3). It was called in full Ramath-Lehi. (See on Judges 15:17.) The character of the narrative suggests the question whether the name may not have existed previously, and the play on words may not have been adapted by Samson to the incident. For the name of the place is Lechi (?????? ), and "a jawbone" is Lehi (???). Shen, "tooth," is the name of an isolated sharp rock (1Samuel 14:4), and therefore "jaw" would not be an unnatural name for a range of such rocks. Josephus, however, says that before Samson's exploit the place "had no name." It may be again alluded to in 2Samuel 23:11, where the words rendered "into a troop" may mean "to Lehi," as it is understood by Josephus (Antt. vii. 12, ? 4) and some MSS. of the LXX. . . .

Verse 9. - Went up, i.e. from their own country in the Shephelah to the hill country of Judah. As Samson had avenged his wrongs on the whole Philistine people, so they now came up to Judah to take vengeance for Samson's injuries. In Lehi, or, rather, hal-Lehi, the Lehi, the place afterwards so called, as related in vers. 17 and 20 (see Judges 7:25, note). Lehi has been identified by some with Tell-el-Lekhiyeh, four miles above Beer-sheba; and by others with Beit-Likiyeh, in the Wady Suleiman, two miles below the upper Beth-heron, and so within easy distance of Timnath and other places mentioned in the history of Samson. But no certainty can at present be arrived at.

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Hebrew
Then the Philistines
פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים (p̄ə·liš·tîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 6430: Philistines -- inhabitants of Philistia

went up,
וַיַּעֲל֣וּ (way·ya·‘ă·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

camped
וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ (way·ya·ḥă·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2583: To incline, to decline, to pitch a, tent, gen, to encamp

in Judah,
בִּיהוּדָ֑ה (bî·hū·ḏāh)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites

and deployed themselves
וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ (way·yin·nā·ṭə·šū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5203: To pound, smite, to disperse, to thrust off, down, out, upon

against Lehi.
בַּלֶּֽחִי׃ (bal·le·ḥî)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3896: Lehi -- a place probably in Judah


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