And he smote them hip and thigh, with a destruction involving everything, said of unmerciful warfare, in which no quarter is given, with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam, in a cleft or cave on the border of the Philistine country, a standing menace to the Philistines. The believers must never grow lax in their warfare against all their spiritual enemies, since their soul's salvation is at stake.
Verse Judges 15:8. _HE SMOTE THEM HIP AND THIGH_] This also is variously understood; but the general meaning seems plain; he appears to have had no kind of defensive weapon, therefore he was obliged...
HIP AND THIGH - A proverbial expression of doubtful origin, meaning all the “great” and “mighty,” all the choice pieces like the thigh and shoulder. IN THE TOP OF THE ROCK - Rather, “the cleft of the...
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...
WENT DOWN. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Syriac, read "went". TOP. cleft....
_hip and thigh_ lit. _leg upon thigh_, so that the limbs of the slain fall one upon another: such seems to be the force of the prep, _upon_, cf. Amos 3:15 -the winter house _upon_the summer house," i....
AND HE SMOTE THEM HIP AND THIGH— Houbigant renders this, and _he contended with them, and slew them with a great slaughter;_ observing, that the idea is taken from the action of wrestlers. It seems to...
_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 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...
TOP, etc.] RV 'cleft of the rock of Etam.' Samson leaves his own tribe for the neighbouring territory of Judah. 9-13. The action, of the men of Judah....
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...
HIP AND THIGH. — There is no doubt that the expression intensifies the words “with a great slaughter;” but the origin of the phrase is a matter of conjecture. It may be purely general, like the German...
וַ יַּ֨ךְ אֹותָ֥ם שֹׁ֛וק עַל ־יָרֵ֖ךְ מַכָּ֣ה
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...
The Philistines sought out the cause of such destruction and found Samson had committed his act of aggression because his father-in-law had violated their agreement. So, they burned him and his daught...
Thigh. Striking this part is often mentioned as a mark of consternation, Jeremias xxxi. 19. (Menochius) --- Hebrew, "and he smote them thigh and leg, with a great slaughter." (Haydock) --- Vatable sup...
I pass over the other considerations here noticed to remark the most interesting, namely, of the suitable punishment on the house of Samson's wife's father. The Reader will recollect the treachery of...
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 HE SMOTE THEM HIP AND THIGH WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER,.... Either smote them on their hips and thighs with his hands (for it does not appear he had any weapon of war), so that they were sadly bruised...
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. Ver. 8. _And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter,_] _i.e., _ Wherever he...
_He smote them hip and thigh_ This seems to be merely a proverbial expression to denote a desperate attack and total overthrow. _And he went down_, or, rather, _went and dwelt_ For it is an idiom of t...
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...
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...
HIP AND THIGH; upon their hips and thighs, peradventure not designing to kill them, but to make them incapable of military employment, or of doing hurt to the Israelites. Or, _He smote them with his l...
Judges 15:8 attacked H5221 (H8686) hip H7785 and H5921 thigh H3409 great H1419 slaughter H4347 down H3381 ...
Judges 15:8 a ‘And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter.' It is possible that Samson actually appeared while they were doing their foul deed and that when he saw them, having cried out...
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...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 15:8 HE STRUCK THEM HIP AND THIGH. The exact meaning of this idiom is obscure. Perhaps it means Samson left his enemies lying on the ground in a tangled jumble of legs and thighs...
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...
Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 63:3; Isaiah 63:6...
Hip and thigh — It seems to be a phrase, to express a desperate attack, attended with the utmost hurry and confusion: and perhaps intimates, that they all fled before him. So he smote them in the hind...