Parallel Verses English Standard Version As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi. King James Bible 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. American Standard Version And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi. Douay-Rheims Bible And when he had ended these words singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone. English Revised Version And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi. Webster's Bible Translation And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jaw-bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi. Judges 15:17 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentWhen the Judaeans learned what was the object of this invasion on the part of the Philistines, three thousand of them went down to the cleft in the rock Etam, to bind Samson and deliver him up to the Philistines. Instead of recognising in Samson a deliverer whom the Lord had raised up for them, and crowding round him that they might smite their oppressors with his help and drive them out of the land, the men of Judah were so degraded, that they cast this reproach at Samson: "Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Wherefore hast thou done this (the deed described in Judges 15:8)? We have come down to bind thee, and deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines." Samson replied, "Swear to me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves." פּגע with בּ, to thrust at a person, fall upon him, including in this case, according to Judges 15:13, the intention of killing. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Ramath-lehi. That is, the lifting up of the jaw-bone, or, the casting away of the jaw-bone. Cross References Judges 15:15 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men. Judges 15:16 And Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men." Judges 15:18 And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the LORD and said, "You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" Jump to Previous Cast End Hand Jawbone Jaw-Bone Lehi Mouth-Bone Ramath Speaking Threw WordsJump to Next Cast End Hand Jawbone Jaw-Bone Lehi Mouth-Bone Ramath Speaking Threw WordsLinks Judges 15:17 NIVJudges 15:17 NLT Judges 15:17 ESV Judges 15:17 NASB Judges 15:17 KJV Judges 15:17 Bible Apps Judges 15:17 Biblia Paralela Judges 15:17 Chinese Bible Judges 15:17 French Bible Judges 15:17 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |
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