◄ Judges 15:8 ►
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Good News Translation
He attacked them fiercely and killed many of them. Then he went and stayed in the cave in the cliff at Etam.

New Revised Standard Version
He struck them down hip and thigh with great slaughter; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Contemporary English Version
Then Samson started hacking them to pieces with his sword. Samson left Philistia and went to live in the cave at Etam Rock.

New American Bible
And he struck them hip and thigh—a great slaughter. Then he went down and stayed in a cleft of the crag of Etam.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.

Isaiah 25:10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain.

Isaiah 63:3,6 I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the Gentiles there is not a man with me: I have trampled on them in my indignation, and have trodden them down in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my apparel. . . .

Context
Samson's Revenge
…7But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet. 8And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.9Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread abroad.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

Judges 15:7
But Samson said to them: Although you have done this, yet will I be revenged of you, and then I will be quiet.

Judges 15:9
Then the Philistines going up into the land of Juda, camped in the place which afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army was spread abroad.

Judges 15:11
Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.

Judges 15:7
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