Lexham English Bible

Judges 15:14-20 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

14. As he came up to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned with fire, and his bindings melted from his hands.

15. And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey; he reached down and took it and killed one thousand men with it.

16. And Samson said, “With the jawbone of the donkey, heap upon heap; with the jawbone of the donkey, I struck dead one thousand men.”

17. And it happened, when he finished speaking he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he called that place Ramath Lehi.

18. And he was very thirsty, and he called to Yahweh and said, “You gave this great victory into the hand of your servant, but now I must die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”

19. So God split the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it; and he drank, and his spirit returned, and he was revived. Thus he called its name The Spring of Ha-Qore, which is at Lehi to this day.

20. And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.