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15 Samson glanced around and spotted the jawbone of a donkey. The jawbone had not yet dried out, so it was still hard and heavy. Samson grabbed it and started hitting Philistines—he killed 1,000 of them! 16 After the fighting was over, he made up this poem about what he had done to the Philistines:

I used a donkey's jawbone
    to kill a thousand men;
I beat them with this jawbone
    over and over again.[a]

17 Samson tossed the jawbone on the ground and decided to call the place Jawbone Hill.[b] It is still called that today.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.16 I beat … again: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 15.17 Jawbone Hill: Or “Ramath-Lehi.”

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