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【士15:14】參孫到了利希,非利士人都迎著喧嚷。耶和華的靈大大感動參孫,他臂上的繩就像火燒的麻一樣,他的綁繩都從他手上脫落下來。
When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
【士15:15】他見一塊未乾的驢腮骨,就伸手拾起來,用以擊殺一千人。
And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.
【士15:16】參孫說:「我用驢腮骨殺人成堆,用驢腮骨殺了一千人。」
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass have I smitten a thousand men.
【士15:17】說完這話,就把那腮骨從手裡拋出去了。那地便叫拉末利希。
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.
【士15:18】參孫甚覺口渴,就求告耶和華說:「你既藉僕人的手施行這麼大的拯救,豈可任我渴死,落在未受割禮的人手中呢?」
And he was sore athirst, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.
【士15:19】 神就使利希的窪處裂開,有水從其中湧出來。參孫喝了,精神復原,因此那泉名叫隱哈歌利,那泉直到今日還在利希。
But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.
【士15:20】當非利士人轄制以色列人的時候,參孫作以色列的士師二十年。
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.