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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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KID. kid of the goats.
I WILL GO IN. Let me come in....
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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וַ יְהִ֨י מִ יָּמִ֜ים בִּ ימֵ֣י קְצִיר
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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Samson's Revenge on the Philistines...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Judges 15:1 while H3117 time H3117 wheat H2406 harvest H7105 Samson
H8123 visited H6485 (H8799) wife H802 young...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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Genesis 29:21; Genesis 38:17; Genesis 6:4; Luke 15:29...
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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....