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Judges 15:18
Judges 15:18 is verse 18 of Judges chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
King James Version
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
World English Bible
He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
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Judges 15:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
17 And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
18 And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19 So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
20 And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
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Judges 8:4Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
John 19:28After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
2 Corinthians 4:8We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
2 Corinthians 4:9persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.
Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 3:8Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
Psalms 18:31For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
Psalms 18:32It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.
Psalms 18:33He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
Psalms 18:34He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Psalms 18:35You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.
Psalms 18:36You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.
Psalms 18:37I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
Psalms 18:38I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
Psalms 18:39You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.
Psalms 18:40You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
Genesis 32:31The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
2 Corinthians 12:8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
Genesis 12:12and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
Genesis 12:13Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
Genesis 20:11Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
1 Samuel 27:1David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
2 Corinthians 1:8We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
2 Corinthians 1:9Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
Hebrews 11:32And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
1 Samuel 17:26David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
1 Samuel 17:36Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
2 Samuel 1:20Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.