Evils. This is a declaration of war, made by Samson in person, against a whole nation. (Haydock) --- He does not wish to engage his countrymen in the quarrel, that they may not be more oppressed. God chose that he should weaken the Philistines by degrees. They had been apprised of the injustice done to Samson, and did not strive to hinder it, so that they all deserved to suffer. (Grotius; Estius; Calmet)
See the margin. Before, when the Philistines injured him he was in covenant with the Timnathites through his marriage and by the rites of hospitality, for which reason he went off to Ashkelon to take...
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...
CONCERNING. to. NOW. this once....
_unto them_ Cf. Judges 15:7. The family and friends were no doubt discussing the situation with oriental excitement. _shall I be blameless in regard of_ i.e. I am resolved to have my revenge on the Ph...
_Samson Burns the Philistines-' Corn Judges 15:3-13_ 3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. 4 And Samson went and caught...
_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 provo...
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...
MORE BLAMELESS THAN, etc.] RV blameless in regard of.. when I do them a mischief.' Samson means that the Philistines have now clearly put themselves in the wrong....
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...
CONCERNING THEM. — There is no reason for this rendering. It should be _to them._ The Vulg. has _cui,_ and the LXX. “to them,” or “to him.” NOW_ — i.e.,_ This time. He means that his second act of ve...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ שִׁמְשֹׁ֔ון נִקֵּ֥יתִי הַ...
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...
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more (b) blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. (b) For through his father-in-law's actions, he was moved again to take vengea...
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. If we consider Samson, not simply in his own personal character, but as acting in...
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,...
AND SAMSON SAID CONCERNING THEM,.... His wife's father, and other relations, and the citizens of Timnath; this, which is what follows, he said either within himself respecting them, or he said it to t...
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. Ver. 3. _Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines._] Who all were in fau...
_Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines_ Or rather, _blameless from the Philistines_, because they have first provoked me by an irreparable injury. It seems probable from this, that the pe...
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...
Samson's Revenge on the Philistines...
And Samson said concerning them, literally, "to them," either the father of his former wife and those present, or to his own family and neighbors, NOW SHALL I BE MORE BLAMELESS THAN THE PHILISTINES, T...
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...
NOW SHALL I BE MORE BLAMELESS THAN THE PHILISTINES, THOUGH: Or, now shall I be blameless from the Philistines, though, etc....
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...
Because they have first provoked me by an irreparable injury. But although this may look like an act of private revenge, yet it is plain enough that Samson acted as a judge, (for so he was,) and as an...
Judges 15:3 Samson H8123 said H559 (H8799) time H6471 blameless H5352 (H8738) Philistines H6430 harm H6213 ...
‘ And Samson said to them, “This time will I be blameless with regard to the Philistines when I do them a mischief.” ' Samson now determined on revenge. Previously he had killed ‘innocent' men, althou...
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...
Judges 14:15...
Now shall I, &c. — Because they have first provoked me by an irreparable injury: but although this may look like an act of private revenge; yet it is plain Samson acted as a judge (for so he was) and...