13. ‘Agreed,’ they answered. ‘We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you.’ So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
14. As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came towards him shouting. The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands.
15. Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.
16. Then Samson said,‘With a donkey’s jawboneI have made donkeys of them.With a donkey’s jawboneI have killed a thousand men.’
17. When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.