After. The same term is used in the original as chap. xiv. 8, which may be rendered "a year after," as it is not probable that the wife of Samson should be married to another, nor that he should lay aside his resentment much sooner. (Calmet)
CHAPTER XV _Samson, going to visit his wife, finds her bestowed on another_, 1, 2. _He is incensed, vows revenge, and burns the corn of the_ _Philistines_, 3-5. _They burn Samson's wife and her f...
VISITED HIS WIFE WITH A KID - A common present (see Genesis 38:17; Luke 15:29). From Samson’s wife being still in her father’s house, it would seem that she was only betrothed, not actually married, t...
CHAPTER 15 THE CONFLICT WITH THE PHILISTINES: BOUND YET FREE _ 1. The damage done to the Philistines (Judges 15:1)_ 2. Bound by his own brethren (Judges 15:9) 3. The deed with the jawbone (Judges 1...
JUDGES 15. SAMSON AGAINST THE PHILISTINES. His anger having cooled, Samson went down to appease his betrothed and complete the marriage. When he learned how things stood, he was angrier than ever, and...
KID. kid of the goats. I WILL GO IN. Let me come in....
Judges 15:1-8. _Samson's revenge_ 1 _.in the time of wheat harvest_ From mid-May to mid-June in this region. The harvest is mentioned to prepare the scene for Judges 15:5. Country weddings generally t...
_SAMSON IS DENIED HIS WIFE: HE BURNETH THE PHILISTINES' CORN; HE IS BOUND BY THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND DELIVERED TO THE PHILISTINES: HE BREAKETH HIS BANDS, AND KILLETH ONE THOUSAND OF THE PHILISTINES WITH...
_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...
WHEAT HARVEST] i.e. about May: cp. Judges 15:4. The reason for the last clause is given in Judges 14:19; Judges 14:20....
SAMSON SLAUGHTERS THE PHILISTINES Samson, being denied his wife, burns the corn of the Philistines. He is delivered up to them by the men of Judah, but bursts his bonds, and slaughters many of the Ph...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 15 V1 Later, at the time when people were harvesting corn, Samson went to visit his wife. He took a young goat as a present. He said, ‘I am going to...
WITHIN A WHILE AFTER. — “After days” (Judges 11:4; Judges 14:8). IN THE TIME OF WHEAT HARVEST. — This, in the _Shephelah,_ would be about the middle of May. VISITED HIS WIFE WITH A KID. — We find the...
וַ יְהִ֨י מִ יָּמִ֜ים בִּ ימֵ֣י קְצִיר
DAUNTLESS IN BATTLE, IGNORANTLY BRAVE Judges 15:1 GIVEN a man of strong passions and uninstructed conscience, wild courage and giant energy, with the sense of a mission which he has to accomplish aga...
IN BAD COMPANY Judges 14:15; Judges 15:1 What strong confirmation is afforded, by Samson's experience, of the misery of a mixed marriage! This Philistine wife had no real love for him, and was more r...
Here we have the record of further exploits by Samson and once more the circumstances of them were not to his credit. His revenge on the Philistines in the destruction of their property and their slau...
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 (a) go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suf...
I beg the Reader to observe with me, merely as a matter of history in this place, what an awful darkness there must be upon the human mind by nature, when a father is so lost and insensible to decency...
CONTENTS The history of Samson is continued through the whole of this Chapter. Several remarkable and surprising events are here recorded of his quarrels with the Philistines, his triumphs over them,...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 AND 15. God makes use of Samson's marriage with a Philistine woman to punish that people. Still, in the freshness of his strength, his heart with Jehovah,...
BUT IT CAME TO PASS WITHIN A WHILE AFTER,.... Or "after days", a year after, the same phrase as in Judges 14:8 in the time of wheat harvest; which began at Pentecost, as barley harvest did at the pass...
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...
_In the time of the wheat harvest_ Which was the proper season for what follows. _With a kid_ As a token of reconciliation. _Into the chamber_ Into her chamber, which the women had separate from the m...
1 Samson is denied his wife. 3 He burneth the Philistines corne with foxes and firebrands. 6 His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines. 7 Samson smiteth them hip and thigh. 9 He is boun...
But it came to pass within a while after, it may have been a matter of six weeks or two months later, IN THE TIME OF WHEAT HARVEST, which usually begins in the first part of May in Palestine, THAT SAM...
Samson's Revenge on the Philistines...
DESTROYING CROPS AND PHILISTINES (vv. 1-8) Samson eventually decided to visit his wife and took a young goat as a gift. She was evidently still in her father's house and her father refused him perm...
1-8 When there are differences between relations, let those be reckoned the wisest and best, who are most forward to forgive or forget, and most willing to stoop and yield for the sake of peace. In t...
JUDGES CHAPTER 15 Samson desireth to visit his wife; is denied her; wherefore he tieth firebrands to three hundred foxes tails, and sets the corn on fire, JUDGES 15:1; for which they burn his wife and...
Judges 15:1 while H3117 time H3117 wheat H2406 harvest H7105 Samson H8123 visited H6485 (H8799) wife H802 young...
CHAPTER 15. SAMSON AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS SUCCESS. This chapter goes on to relate how Samson, being denied his wife, gained his revenge by burning the corn fields, vineyards, and olives of the Philistin...
CONTENTS: Samson takes vengeance on the Philistines. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Samson, his family and friends. CONCLUSION: There is nothing too hard or too much for him to do on whom the Holy Sp...
Judges 15:4. _Caught three hundred foxes._ The task of collecting these animals was not at all impossible; the country very much abounded with foxes, as appears from many passages of scripture. Nehemi...
_I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her._ WRONG-DOERS NATURALLY SEEK TO JUSTIFY THEMSELVES This spirit of self-justification, which is generally associated with wrong-doing, appeared very...
REVENGE TAKEN AND RETURNED (Judges 15:1.) CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 15:1. WITHIN A WHILE AFTER.] _After some time_, indefinitely; probably a few months. IN THE TIME OF WHEAT HARVEST.] About the month o...
EXPOSTION JUDGES 15:1 WITHIN A WHILE—the same expression as that in Judges 14:8, rendered "after a time," and in Judges 11:4, rendered "in_ _process of time." In the time of
Tonight shall we turn to Judges, the fifteenth chapter? And we pick up on the story of Samson here in chapter fifteen. The story of Samson begins in the thirteenth chapter of the book of Judges with t...
Genesis 29:21; Genesis 38:17; Genesis 6:4; Luke 15:29...
Wheat harvest — Which was the proper season for what follows. With a kid — As a token of reconciliation. Into the chamber — Into her chamber, which the women had separate from the mens....