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Rock of Etam

에담 바위

Judges 15:8 and 15:11 name “the cave in Etam’s rock”. At 15:8 Samson strikes the Philistines hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and goes down and lives in the cave in Etam’s rock; at 15:11–13 three thousand men of Judah go down to the cave in Etam’s rock, bind him with two new ropes, and bring him up from the rock. The Korean Revised Version calls it 에담 바위 틈 (a cleft in the rock of Etam). This collection keeps it apart from Etham of Exodus 13:20, which the WEB spells otherwise.

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JDG 15:7–8, engwebp
⁷Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
⁸He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
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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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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Etam 1” by name and 2 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Arak Ismain (confidence 816 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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Arak Ismain
OpenBible.info confidence 816 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.76372, 35.02579
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Etam 1” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (2) — Samson strikes the Philistines with a great slaughter and lives in the cave in Etam’s rock, Three thousand men of Judah bind Samson with two new ropes and bring him up from the rock

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Entry: Rock of Etam (place-rock-of-etam)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/rock-of-etam
Current wording: Judges 15:8 and 15:11 name “the cave in Etam’s rock”. At 15:8 Samson strikes the Philistines hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and goes down and lives in the cave in Etam’s rock; at 15:11–13 three thousand men of Judah go down to the cave in Etam’s rock, bind him with two new ropes, and bring him up from the rock. The Korean Revised Version calls it 에담 바위 틈 (a cleft in the rock of Etam). This collection keeps it apart from Etham of Exodus 13:20, which the WEB spells otherwise.
Cited evidence: JDG 15:7–8, engwebp / JDG 15:9–13, engwebp
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