place
Lehi
לֶחִי
Lehi, a place where Samson fought against the Philistines and God provided him with water (Judges 15:9, 14, 19).
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Judges 15:9
- last named
- Judges 15:19
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.75°N · 35.00°E
Khirbet es Siyyagh (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 3 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Lehi in the text
Lehi is mentioned in the book of Judges as a place where Samson, empowered by the Spirit of God, fought against the Philistines. The Philistines went up and encamped in Judah, spreading out in Lehi (Judges 15:9). When Samson was handed over to the Philistines by the men of Judah, he broke free from his bonds and struck down a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey (Judges 15:14-15). After this victory, Samson was thirsty, and God miraculously provided water for him to drink from a hollow place in Lehi (Judges 15:19). The name "Lehi" is also mentioned in 2Sa.23.11 as the location of a battle where Shammah, one of David's mighty men, stood his ground against the Philistines and achieved a great victory.
Relations
Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Lehi is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
4 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Judges (3) and 2 Samuel (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 2 books. The name is written 5 times in them.
Onward
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Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources