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16 So Samson sang,

“With the jawbone of a donkey I killed a thousand men;
With the jawbone of a donkey I piled them up in piles.”[a]

17 After that, he threw the jawbone away. The place where this happened was named Ramath Lehi.[b]

18 Then Samson became very thirsty, so he called to the Lord and said, “You gave me this great victory; am I now going to die of thirst and be captured by these heathen Philistines?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:16 This word sounds like the Hebrew for “donkey.”
  2. Judges 15:17 This name in Hebrew means “Jawbone Hill.”

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