Topic
Lehi
5 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Judges 15:9Easton · Smith
¶ Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
- Judges 15:14Easton · Smith
¶ 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.
- Judges 15:9–19Nave A district of Judah, where Samson killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
¶ 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. Then three thousand men of…
- Judges 15:16Easton
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
- Judges 15:19Smith
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 En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
A jawbone, a place in the tribe of Judah where Samson achieved a victory over the Philistines (Judg. 15:9, 14, 16), slaying a thousand of them with the jawbone of an ass. The words in 15:19, “a hollow place that was in the jaw” (A.V.), should be, as in Revised Version, “the hollow place that is in Lehi.”
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
le'-hi.
See RAMATH-LEHI.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 1 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → A district of Judah, where Samson killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey Jud 15:9-19
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.