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Lehi
A jawbone, a place in the tribe of Judah where Samson achieved a victory over the Philistines (Judg 15:9, Judg 15:14, Judg 15:16), slaying a thousand of them with the jawbone of an ass. The words in Judg 15:19, “a hollow place that was in the jaw” (A.V.), should be, as in Revised Version, “the hollow place that is in Lehi.”
Named in the Bible
3 verses
- Judges 15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
- Judges 15:14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
- Judges 15:19 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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
