Judges 15:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ He struck them down hip and thigh with a massive defeat, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Common English Bible

⁸ He struck them hard, taking their legs right out from under them. Then he traveled down and stayed in a cave in the rock at Etam.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And he struck them with a tremendous slaughter, so much so that, out of astonishment, they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And descending, he lived in a cave of the rock at Etam.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And he made a great slaughter of them, so that in astonishment they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And going down he dwelt in a cavern of the rock Etam.

Judges 15:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 11:6

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain. The Moabites shall be trodden down in their place as straw is trodden down in the manure.

Isaiah 63:3

“I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their juice spattered on my garments, and I stained all my robes.

Isaiah 63:6

I trampled down peoples in my anger; I crushed them in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

Hebrews 11:34

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

Judges 15:10

The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.”

Judges 15:11

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then have you done to us?” He replied, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

Judges 15:7

Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will not stop until I have taken revenge on you.”

Judges 15:9

Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi.