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Judges 15:8

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

In Context

7And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'

9Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves against Lehi.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:6He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

Isaiah 63:3'I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was no man with Me; yea, I trod them in Mine anger, and trampled them in My fury; and their lifeblood is dashed against My garments, and I have stained all My raiment.

Matthew Henry on Judges 15:2-9

Samson's Firebrands. ( b. c. 1141.) 1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. 2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. 3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than… Read the whole commentary →

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