Judges 15:19-20

15:19 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. 15:20 Samson led Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.


tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

tn Heb “spirit.”

tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”

tn Traditionally, “judged.”

tn Heb “in the days of the Philistines.”