Judges 15:8

So he smote them, leg on thigh, with a great smiting,—and went down and dwelt in a cleft of the crag Etam.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 to them, Though ye do the like of this, yet will I be avenged upon you, and, afterwards, will I cease.

9Then went up the Philistines, and encamped in Judah,—and were spread abroad in Lehi.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:6yea he built Bethlehem and Etam, and Tekoa;

Isaiah 63:3A winepress, have I trodden, alone, And of the peoples, there was no man with me. So I trod them down in mine anger, And trampled upon them, in mine indignation,—And their life-blood besprinkled my garments, And all mine apparel, I defiled;

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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