Samson Kills 1,000 Philistines

14 When Samson arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, so that the ropes that bound him were like flax that’s been burned by fire, and his bonds dissolved.
15 He happened upon a jawbone from a putrefying donkey, reached out to grab it and killed 1,000 men with it.
16 Then Samson declared,

“With a jawbone from the donkey
here a heap, there a pair of heaps
with the jawbone of the donkey
I’ve killed 1,000 men.

”With Samson's consent, given on the condition that the Judahites would not kill him themselves, they tie him with two new ropes and are about to hand him over to the Philistines when he breaks free of the ropes. Using the jawbone of a donkey, he slays 1,000 Philistines.

Samson had been given supernatural strength by God as a gift and as part of his office as Judge of Israel. So Samson’s strength would have been much greater than an average man’s: probably what we would today label as “superhuman.”

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