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The artist painted Samson holding a donkey\u2019s jawbone \u2013 his weapon of choice for killing a thousand Philistines in battle (Judges 15:15). While one might consider a jawbone a good prop for a portrait, this still seems like an odd way to represent Samson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De Bray was not the only artist who chose to paint Samson with a jawbone. Some artists even drew Samson drinking water spouting from a jaw. While art historians have explained that the motif of Samson and the jaw-fountain is based on a (problematic) Dutch Bible rendition of the subsequent scene, where Samson smashes water from a rock in a place call Lehi, meaning jaw, (Judges 15:19), this \u201cmistake\u201d actually draws attention to a key feature of Samson\u2019s career \u2013 the proximity of life and death symbolized by a jawbone \u2013 which helps brings the animal sustenance \u2013 repurposed as a weapon. 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