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16-17 Tossing away the jawbone, he remarked,

“Heaps upon heaps,

All with a donkey’s jaw!

I’ve killed a thousand men,

All with a donkey’s jaw!”

(The place has been called “Jawbone Hill” ever since.)

18 But now he was very thirsty and he prayed to the Lord and said, “You have given Israel such a wonderful deliverance through me today! Must I now die of thirst and fall to the mercy of these heathen?” 19 So the Lord caused water to gush out from a hollow in the ground, and Samson’s spirit was revived as he drank. Then he named the place “The Spring of the Man Who Prayed,” and the spring is still there today.

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