Question: What object did Samson use to kill one thousand Philistines?
Answer: The jawbone of an ass. (Judges 15:15)
Comments: When he was attacked by the Philistines (after he had burned their crops), Samson picked up a donkey's jawbone and used it to eliminate one thousand enemies. Today, we might say that the jawbone was a "weapon of opportunity".
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it. (Judges 15:15, NASB)
Ever the trickster, Samson punnishly bragged, "With a donkey's jawbone/I have made donkeys of them." (Judges 15:16, NIV) In other words he used an ass' bone to make asses of his enemies.
Note: This oil on canvas, "The Triumph of Samson" by Guido Reni (1575-1642), hangs at the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna.
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