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Judges 15:8

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.

World English Bible Classic

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

7Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

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

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:6He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

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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