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16 Then Samson said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey,
    I’ve piled them in heaps!
With the jawbone of a donkey,
    I’ve killed a thousand men!”

17 When he finished his boasting, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was named Jawbone Hill.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 15:17 Hebrew Ramath-lehi.

16 And Samson said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey,
    heaps upon heaps,
with the jawbone of a donkey
    have I struck down a thousand men.”

17 As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place (A)was called Ramath-lehi.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:17 Ramath-lehi means the hill of the jawbone