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Judges 15:8

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

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Judges 15:8 in other translations

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.

Judges 15:8 · American Standard Version

Judges 15:8 in context

  1. 6Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?”
    They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
  2. 7Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
  3. 8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
  4. 9Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
  5. 10The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”
    They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”