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Judges 15:8

American Standard Version

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.

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Judges 15:8 in other translations

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

Judges 15:8 · World English Bible

Judges 15:8 in context

  1. 6Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
  2. 7And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
  3. 8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
  4. 9Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
  5. 10And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.