Judges 15:8
King James Version (KJV)
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
In context
6 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.
7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
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.
9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10 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.
Judges 15:8 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
- WEB World English Bible
- He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And he smiteth them hip and thigh — a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the cliff Etam.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.