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Judges 15:14-18 (CEV)

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¹⁴ (SEE 15:13) 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 a thousand 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. ¹⁷ Samson tossed the jawbone on the ground and decided to call the place Jawbone Hill. It is still called that today. ¹⁸ Samson was so thirsty that he prayed, "Our LORD, you helped me win a battle against a whole army. Please don't let me die of thirst now. Those heathen Philistines will carry off my dead body."

Definition(s):
Philistines (Fill-iss-tigns): those who dwell in villages
Samson (Sam-son): his sun; his service; there the second time