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. "
— Judges 15:8, American Standard 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.”
“He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.”
“He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.”
“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.”
“And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.”
“And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.”
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.
Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath 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, If ye do after this manner, surely I will 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 cleft of the rock of Etam.
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.