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Summary
Samson Slays a Thousand Men

Judges 15:14 - 15:19

15:14. Now when he had come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.

15:15. Finding a jawbone, even the jawbone of a donkey, which lay there, catching it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.

15:16. He said: With the jawbone of an donkey, with the jaw of the colt of donkeys, I have destroyed them, and have slain a thousand men.

15:17. When he had ended these words, singing, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called the name of that place Ramathlechi, which is interpreted the lifting up of the jawbone.

15:18. Being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: You have given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of your servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.

'''15:19. Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the donkey and waters issued out of it. And when he had drunk them, he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.'''

Samson Slays a Thousand Men, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) and followers, gouache on board, 9 x 6 5/16 in. (22.9 x 16.1 cm), at the Jewish Museum, New York Date: c. 1896-1902 Source: www.thejewishmuseum.org/onlinecollection/object_collection.php?objectid=26451&lefttxt=samson Author: James Joseph Jacques Tissot (1836–1902)