JUDGES 15:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath–lehi.”
Samson casts away the jawbone and names the place Ramath-lehi, creating geographic memory. This toponymy appropriates sacred geography like Joshua's memorial stones. Yet the act distances him from his deed: he names the place but builds no altar, offers no sacrifice, gives no explicit praise to Yahweh. The landscape remembers what his piety does not articulate.
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