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Judges 15:8

Judges 15:8 is verse 8 of Judges chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

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.

Literally he struck them hip and thigh

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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.

World English Bible

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.

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Judges 15:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

7 And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”

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

9 Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.

10 “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.

Isaiah 63:3

“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

Isaiah 63:6

I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”

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