He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
The Hebrew words translated "donkey" and "heaps" constitute wordplay. Samson loved riddles and rhymes. Moffatt’s translation rendered the first part of Samson’s poem, "With the jawbone of an ass, I have piled them in a mass." Samson named the place where he defeated these Philistines "Jawbone Hill." This hill may have been the mound Samson had built with the corpses of the Philistines.