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Lehi

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Judges 15:9 names it: “Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.” At 15:14 Samson comes to Lehi, the Philistines shout as they meet him, and the LORD’s Spirit comes mightily on him; at 15:15–17 he strikes a thousand men with a fresh jawbone of a donkey, throws the jawbone out of his hand, and that place is called Ramath Lehi. At 15:19 God splits the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water comes out of it; “its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.” This collection keeps Lehi and Ramath Lehi apart: the text does not say that Lehi was renamed, and 15:19 still names Lehi.

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JDG 15:9–13, engwebp
⁹Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
¹⁰The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
¹¹Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
¹²They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
¹³They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
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JDG 15:14–17, engwebp
¹⁴When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
¹⁵He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
¹⁶Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
¹⁷When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
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JDG 15:18–20, engwebp
¹⁸He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
¹⁹But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
²⁰He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Lehi” by name and 3 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Khirbet es Siyyagh (confidence 470 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.

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Khirbet es Siyyagh
OpenBible.info confidence 470 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.7488, 35.00101
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Lehi” (CC BY 4.0)
Arak Ismain
OpenBible.info confidence 138 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.76372, 35.02579
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Lehi” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (3) — Three thousand men of Judah bind Samson with two new ropes and bring him up from the rock, At Lehi Samson strikes a thousand men with a fresh jawbone of a donkey, Samson, very thirsty, calls on the LORD, and God splits the hollow place that is in Lehi

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Judges 15:9 Open that verse

Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

Judges 15:14 Open that verse

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.

Judges 15:19 Open that verse

But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

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Entry: Lehi (place-lehi)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/lehi
Current wording: Judges 15:9 names it: “Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.” At 15:14 Samson comes to Lehi, the Philistines shout as they meet him, and the LORD’s Spirit comes mightily on him; at 15:15–17 he strikes a thousand men with a fresh jawbone of a donkey, throws the jawbone out of his hand, and that place is called Ramath Lehi. At 15:19 God splits the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water comes out of it; “its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.” This collection keeps Lehi and Ramath Lehi apart: the text does not say that Lehi was renamed, and 15:19 still names Lehi.
Cited evidence: JDG 15:9–13, engwebp / JDG 15:14–17, engwebp / JDG 15:18–20, engwebp
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