SAMSON'S WEAPON
A traveller has been telling us of a curious find he made in Palestine some years ago. It was an ass's jawbone, with six triangular knives fixed where the back teeth had been. He had no doubt that it was a sickle. Thus one of history's puzzles is explained. After Samon had quarrelled with the Philistines his own people, in terror, bound him and handed him over to his enemies, but he burst his bonds, and picking up the new jawbones of an ass, put his foes to flight. A jawbone of an ass is a strange thing to find lying about, and not very useful as a weapon, but it is quite likely that Samson chanced upon a sickle, for it was the time of the wheat harvest. Wielded by a powerful and desperate man it was a deadly thing.
So the chance discovery of this jawbone sickle clears up one of the little mysteries of Bible history.
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Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2270, 19 February 1929, Page 3
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