Judges 15:8

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

Leeser Tanakh

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, Since ye will do the like of this, I will surely be avenged on you, and after that will I cease.

9And the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lechi.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:6He built, namely, Beth-lechem, and 'Etam, and Thekoa'.

Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the vat alone, and of the nations there was no man with me; and I trod them down in my anger, and I trampled on them in my fury; and their blood was sprinkled on my garments, and all my raiments have I stained.

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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