And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking,.... Of delivering out the above song, which very probably consisted of much more than what is here expressed:
that he cast away the jawbone…
Barnes' Notes
Ramath-lehi - Either the “height or hill of Lehi,” or, “of the jaw-bone;” or, as in the margin, “the crestlag away of the jaw-bone,” with allusion to Samson casting it out of his hand, when he had…
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…
Cambridge Bible
was called The text here and in Jdg 15:15 is to be preferred to the marg.
Ramath-lehi i.e. the height of Lehi, cf. Ramath-mizpeh Jos 13:26, Ramoth-gilead etc. Popular etymology, however, gave it the…