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Judges 15:8

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

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KJV 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.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

WEB World English Bible

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

ASV 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.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

And he smiteth them hip and thigh—a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

Surrounding context — Judges 15

5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives.

6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

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.

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

10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

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