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Judges 15:19

Samson was tired and weary, but God sent water gushing from a rock. Samson drank some and felt strong again. Samson named the place Caller Spring, because he had called out to God for help. The spring is still there at Jawbone.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - En-Hakkore;   Lehi;   Miracles;   Samson;   Water;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Water;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ass, the Domestic;   Prayer, Answers to;   Water;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Etam;   Lehi;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Spirit;   Easton Bible Dictionary - En-Hakkore;   Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Enhakkore;   Etam;   Lehi;   Timnah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - En-Hakkore;   Fountain;   Hakkore;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - En-Hakkore;   Israel;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Marriage;   Philistines;   Samson;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Enhakkore ;   Lehi ;   Zephaniah, Prophecy of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Makaz;   Smith Bible Dictionary - En-Hak'ko-Re;   E'tam, the Rock,;   Le'hi;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cleave;   En-Hakkore;   Hollow;   Holy Spirit;   Maktesh, the;   Psychology;   Ramath-Lehi;   Revive;   Samson;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agricultural Colonies in Palestine;   Ancestor Worship;   Miracle;   Samson;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So God split a hollow place in the ground at Lehi, and water came out of it. After Samson drank, his strength returned, and he revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, which is still in Lehi today.
Hebrew Names Version
But God split the hollow place that is in Lechi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore, which is in Lechi, to this day.
King James Version
But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
Lexham English Bible
So God split the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it; and he drank, and his spirit returned, and he was revived. Thus he called its name The Spring of Ha-Qore, which is at Lehi to this day.
English Standard Version
And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.
New Century Version
Then God opened up a hole in the ground at Lehi, and water came out. When Samson drank, he felt better; he felt strong again. So he named that spring Caller's Spring, which is still in Lehi.
New English Translation
So God split open the basin at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring En Hakkore. It remains in Lehi to this very day.
Amplified Bible
So God split open the hollow place that was at Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his spirit (strength) returned and he was revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore (spring which is calling), which is at Lehi to this day.
New American Standard Bible
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then God brake the cheeke tooth, that was in the iawe, and water came thereout: and when he had drunke, his Spirit came againe, and he was reuiued: wherefore the name therof is called, Enhakkore, which is in Lehi vnto this day.
Legacy Standard Bible
These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, not having the Spirit.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then God made a gash in the crater at Lechi, and water came out. When he had drunk, his spirit came back; and he revived. This is why the place was called ‘Ein-HaKorei [the spring of him who called], and it is there in Lechi until now.
Darby Translation
And God clave the hallow rock which was in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
Easy-to-Read Version
There is a hole in the ground at Lehi. God made that hole crack open, and water came out. Samson drank the water and felt better. He felt strong again. So he named that water spring En Hakkore. It is still there in the city of Lehi today.
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD God opened the hollow place that was in the jawbone of the ass, and there came water from it; and when he had drunk, his spirit returned and he revived; therefore he called the name of that place En-karna di paka di khmara, to this day.
Good News Translation
Then God opened a hollow place in the ground there at Lehi, and water came out of it. Samson drank it and began to feel much better. So the spring was named Hakkore; it is still there at Lehi.
Literal Translation
And God broke open the hollow place which is in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore its name is called the Fountain of the Praying One, which is in Lehi to this day.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The God opened a gometothe in ye chekebone, so yt water wete out: & whan he dranke, his sprete came agayne, & he was refreßshed. Therfore vnto this daye it is yet called ye well of ye cheke bone of him yt made intercession.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But God brake a great tooth that was in the iawe, & there came water therout, and when he had drunke, his spirite came agayne, & he was refreshed: wherfore the name thereof was called vnto this day, The well of the caller on: which came of the iawe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But God cleaved the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came back, and he revived; wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
King James Version (1611)
But God claue an hollow place that was in the iawe, and there came water thereout, & when he had drunke, his spirit came againe, and he reuiued: wherefore hee called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, vnto this day:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of the fountain was called ‘The well of the invoker,’ which is in Lechi, until this day.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the Lord openyde a wang tooth in the cheke boon of the asse, and watris yeden out therof, `bi whiche drunkun he refreischide the spirit, and resseuede strengthis; therfor the name of that place was clepid the Welle of the clepere of the cheke `til to present dai.
Young's Literal Translation
And God cleaveth the hollow place which [is] in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinketh, and his spirit cometh back, and he reviveth; therefore hath [one] called its name `The fountain of him who is calling,' which [is] in Lehi unto this day.
Update Bible Version
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he drank, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
Webster's Bible Translation
But God cleaved a hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of it; and when he had drank, his spirit came again, and he revived. Wherefore he called the name of it En-hakkore, which [is] in Lehi to this day.
World English Bible
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 the name of it was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
New King James Version
So God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, Judges 15:14)">[fn] and water came out, and he drank; and his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he called its name En Hakkore, [fn] which is in Lehi to this day.
New Living Translation
So God caused water to gush out of a hollow in the ground at Lehi, and Samson was revived as he drank. Then he named that place "The Spring of the One Who Cried Out," and it is still in Lehi to this day.
New Life Bible
But God broke open a place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned. He received new life. So he called the place En-hakkore. It is in Lehi to this day.
New Revised Standard
So God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came from it. When he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore it was named En-hakkore, which is at Lehi to this day.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then God clave open the hollow that is in Lehi, and there came therefrom water, and he drank, and his spirit came back, and he revived, - for this cause, called he the name thereof - Ain-hakkore, which is in Lehi, until this day.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass and waters issued out of it. And when he had drunk them, he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.
Revised Standard Version
And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and there came water from it; and when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkor'e; it is at Lehi to this day.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

Contextual Overview

18 Samson was so thirsty that he prayed, "Our Lord , you helped me win a battle against a whole army. Please don't let me die of thirst now. Those heathen Philistines will carry off my dead body." 19 Samson was tired and weary, but God sent water gushing from a rock. Samson drank some and felt strong again. Samson named the place Caller Spring, because he had called out to God for help. The spring is still there at Jawbone. 20 Samson was a leader of Israel for twenty years, but the Philistines were still the rulers of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the jaw: or, Lehi, This reading is certainly preferable: it was in the place called Lehi where a spring was supernaturally opened.

there came: Isaiah 44:3

his spirit: Genesis 45:27, 1 Samuel 30:12, Isaiah 40:26

Enhakkore: Samson gave this expressive name to the miraculously springing water, to be as a memorial of the goodness of God to him. En-hakkore, the well of him that cried, which kept him in remembrance both of his own distress which caused him to cry, and the favour of Jehovah to him in answer to his cry. Many a spring of comfort God opens to his people, which may fitly be called by the name En-hakkore, and this instance of Samson's relief should encourage us to trust in God, for when he pleases he can open rivers in high places. Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 41:18, Samson at first gave the name of Ramath-lehi - the lifting up of the jaw-bone which denoted him great and triumphant, but now he gives it another name, En-hakkore, which denotes him wanting and dependent. Genesis 16:13, Genesis 22:14, Genesis 28:19, Genesis 30:30, Exodus 17:15, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 120:1

Reciprocal: Judges 15:9 - Lehi 1 Kings 17:6 - the ravens Psalms 107:5 - General Proverbs 25:25 - cold

Cross-References

Genesis 15:21
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout,.... A socket in which was fastened one of the teeth, and was in the form of a mortar; so Jarchi and Ben Melech, as the word for an hollow place signifies; one of the grinders was knocked out, and so the place where it had been was left hollow, and out of that sprung a stream or flow of water; which was very wonderful, since out of such a place rather blood, or purulent matter, would naturally have issued; the Targum is,

"the Lord clave the rock which was in the jaw;''

which Kimchi interprets thus, the rock was under the jaw and the rock was made as a hollow place, and therefore they call it "mactes", a mortar: the sense seems to be this, that the place on which Samson cast the jawbone was a rock, and there God clave an hollow place, out of which water sprung, and which perhaps was under the jawbone, and sprung under it, and through it; and so Josephus says o, that God at his prayer brought a sweet and large fountain out of a certain rock; and the words of the text will bear to be rendered, "and God clave, an hollow place, which is in Lehi"; that is, in the place called Lehi,

Judges 15:9 and not in the jawbone itself:

and when he had drank, his spirit came again, and he revived; his spirit was sunk and gone, as it were, but upon drinking a draught of this water he was refreshed and cheered, recovered his spirits, and became brisk and lively:

wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore; that is,

"the fountain of him that was calling;''

of Samson that called upon God in prayer, and was heard, in memory of which he gave it this name; so the Targum,

"therefore its name was called the fountain that was given through the prayer of Samson:''

which is in Lehi unto this day; or in the jawbone: not that the jawbone continued unto the time of the writer of this book, but the name of the place where this miracle was wrought, which was in Lehi, continued to be called Enhakkore unto that time, and it may be the fountain itself continued also; nay, Giycas p says, who lived but about six hundred years ago, that the fountain continued unto his time, and was to be seen in the suburbs of Eleutheropolis, and was called the fountain of the jawbone.

o Ibid. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 9.) p Annal. par. 2. p. 164. apud Reland. Palestin. Illustrat. p. 872.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An hollow place that was in the jaw - The right translation is, “the hollow place which is in Lehi.” The word translated “hollow place,” means a “mortar” Proverbs 27:22, and is here evidently a hollow or basin among the cliffs of Lehi, which, from its shape, was called “the mortar.” A spring, on the way from Socho to Eleutheropolis, was commonly called Samson’s spring in the time of Jerome and writers in the 7th, 12th, and 14th centuries.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 15:19. God clave a hollow place that was in the jaw — אשר בלחי asher ballechi, that was in Lehi; that is, there was a hollow place in this Lehi, and God caused a fountain to spring up in it. Because the place was hollow it was capable of containing the water that rose up in it, and thus of becoming a well.

En-hakkoreThe well of the implorer; this name he gave to the spot where the water rose, in order to perpetuate the bounty of God in affording him this miraculous supply.

Which is in Lehi unto this day. — Consequently not IN the jaw-bone of the ass, a most unfortunate rendering.


 
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