_BUT IT CAME TO PASS WITHIN A WHILE AFTER, IN THE TIME OF WHEAT HARVEST, THAT SAMSON VISITED HIS WIFE WITH A KID; AND HE SAID, I WILL GO IN TO MY WIFE INTO THE CHAMBER. BUT HER FATHER WOULD NOT SUFFER HIM TO GO IN._ In the time of wheat harvest - i:e., about the end of our April, or the beginning o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HER FATHER SAID, I VERILY THOUGHT THAT THOU HADST UTTERLY HATED HER; THEREFORE I GAVE HER TO THY COMPANION: IS NOT HER YOUNGER SISTER FAIRER THAN SHE? TAKE HER, I PRAY THEE, INSTEAD OF HER._ I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her. This allegation was a mere sham-a flimsy pretext to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMSON SAID CONCERNING THEM, NOW SHALL I BE MORE BLAMELESS THAN THE PHILISTINES, THOUGH I DO THEM A DISPLEASURE._ Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines. This nefarious conduct provoked the hero's just indignation, and he resolved to take signal vengeance.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMSON WENT AND CAUGHT THREE HUNDRED FOXES, AND TOOK FIREBRANDS, AND TURNED TAIL TO TAIL, AND PUT A FIREBRAND IN THE MIDST BETWEEN TWO TAILS._ Went and caught three hundred foxes - rather х_ SHUW`AALIYM_ (H7776)], jackals-an animal between a wolf and a fox (Canis aureus), which, unlike our fox... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE HAD SET THE BRANDS ON FIRE, HE LET THEM GO INTO THE STANDING CORN OF THE PHILISTINES, AND BURNT UP BOTH THE SHOCKS, AND ALSO THE STANDING CORN, WITH THE VINEYARDS AND OLIVES._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE PHILISTINES SAID, WHO HATH DONE THIS? AND THEY ANSWERED, SAMSON, THE SON IN LAW OF THE TIMNITE, BECAUSE HE HAD TAKEN HIS WIFE, AND GIVEN HER TO HIS COMPANION. AND THE PHILISTINES CAME UP, AND BURNT HER AND HER FATHER WITH FIRE._ Who hath done this? The author of this outrage, and the caus... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMSON SAID UNTO THEM THOUGH YE HAVE DONE THIS YET WILL I BE AVENGED OF YOU AND AFTER THAT I WILL_ _ AND SAMSON SAID UNTO THEM, THOUGH YE HAVE DONE THIS, YET WILL I BE AVENGED OF YOU, AND AFTER THAT I WILL CEASE._ Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you. By that act the farmers... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SMOTE THEM HIP AND THIGH WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER: AND HE WENT DOWN AND DWELT IN THE TOP OF THE ROCK ETAM._ Smote them hip and thigh - a proverbial expression for a merciless slaughter. WENT DOWN AND DWELT IN THE TOP OF THE ROCK ETAM - rather, went down and dwelt х_ BIC`IYP_ (H5585)] in a c... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE PHILISTINES WENT UP, AND PITCHED IN JUDAH, AND SPREAD THEMSELVES IN LEHI._ Then the Philistines went up - to the high land of Judah. AND SPREAD THEMSELVES IN LEHI - a district on the border of the Philistine territory, now el-Lekieh, abounding with limestone cliffs, the sides of which ar... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF JUDAH SAID, WHY ARE YE COME UP AGAINST US? AND THEY ANSWERED, TO BIND SAMSON ARE WE COME UP, TO DO TO HIM AS HE HATH DONE TO US._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAMSON SAID, WITH THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS, HEAPS UPON HEAPS, WITH THE JAW OF AN ASS HAVE I SLAIN A THOUSAND MEN._ With the Jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps. The inadequacy of the weapon plainly shows this to have been a miraculous feat, 'a case of supernatural strength;' just as the gift of p... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 RAMATHLEHI._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT GOD CLAVE AN HOLLOW PLACE THAT WAS IN THE JAW, AND THERE CAME WATER THEREOUT; AND WHEN HE HAD DRUNK, HIS SPIRIT CAME AGAIN, AND HE REVIVED: WHEREFORE HE CALLED THE NAME THEREOF ENHAKKORE, WHICH IS IN LEHI UNTO THIS DAY._ An hollow place ... in the jaw - in Lehi, taking the word as a proper nou... [ Continue Reading ]