Top Verses from Judges 15  

Then Samson said, "With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men." (NIV)

And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have slain 1,000 men! (AMP)

And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. (KJV)

When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi. (NIV)

And when he stopped speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi [the hill of the jawbone]. (AMP)

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi. (KJV)

Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, "You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" (NIV)

Samson was very thirsty, and he prayed to the Lord and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised? (AMP)

And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? (KJV)

Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived. So the spring was called En Hakkore, and it is still there in Lehi. (NIV)

And God split open the hollow place that was at Lehi, and water came out of it. And when he drank, his spirit returned and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore [the spring of him who prayed], which is at Lehi to this day. (AMP)

But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. (KJV)

Samson led Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines. (NIV)

And [Samson] judged (defended) Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. [Judg. 17:6.] (AMP)

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. (KJV)

Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, "I'm going to my wife's room." But her father would not let him go in. (NIV)

BUT SOME days later, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, taking along a kid [as a token of reconciliation]; and he said, I will go unto my wife in the inner chamber. But her father would not allow him to go in. (AMP)

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. (KJV)

He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam. (NIV)

And he smote them hip and thigh [unsparingly], a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam. (AMP)

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. (KJV)

As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came on him in power. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands. (NIV)

And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon [Samson], and the ropes on his arms became as flax that had caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. (AMP)

And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. (KJV)

Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men. (NIV)

And he found a still moist jawbone of a donkey and reached out and took it and slew 1,000 men with it. (AMP)

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. (KJV)

The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi. (NIV)

Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and spread themselves in Lehi. (AMP)

Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. (KJV)