King James Version (KJV)
Judges 15:8
“And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.”
Verse in context — Judges 15
Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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