Judges 15:16

And Samson said,.... In a kind of triumphant song:

with the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps; that is, with such an instrument he had slain heaps of men, who lay dead in heaps upon one another;…

There is a play upon the word, three times repeated, which means both “an ass” and also “a heap.” The spirit of riddle-making Jdg 14:12, Jdg 14:18 is apparent in this song of triumph (compare Jdg 5:1;…

Here is, I. Samson violently pursued by the Philistine. They went up in a body, a more formidable force than they had together when Samson smote them hip and thigh; and they pitched in Judah, and…

heaps upon heaps See marg., and cf. Exo 8:14 [Hebrews 10, lit. heaps, heaps. But a verb is wanted to complete the parallelism with clause b; and, simply pronouncing the words differently, we may…