Judges 15:8

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

Webster Bible

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 have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

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

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Cross References

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

Isaiah 63:3I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain 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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