Judges 15:8

hip and thigh lit. leg upon thigh, so that the limbs of the slain fall one upon another: such seems to be the force of the prep, upon, cf. Amos 3:15 -the winter house uponthe summer house," i.e. so that the one falls upon the other, and Genesis 32:11; Hosea 10:14. At any rate it is a proverbial expression for with a great slaughter.

the rock of Etam The Etam between Beth-lehem and Tekoa, 2 Chronicles 11:6, is too high up and too far away. Schick, who finds the scenes of Samson's exploits in the neighbourhood of -Artuf a little S.E. of Zorah, identifies Etam with -Araḳ Isma -în, near Marmita, remarkable for a perpendicular rock with a cave which can only be reached by going downto it (ZDPV. x. 143 ff.). Perhaps this was almost within the Danite territory; Judges 15:9 ff. imply that the rock of Etam was in Judah.