Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Judges 15:7
Whereby it appears, that it was not his private injuries, but the public, which he did revenge.
Whereby it appears, that it was not his private injuries, but the public, which he did revenge.
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...
THIS. like [this]: i.e. on this wise....
_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 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 T...
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...
THOUGH YE HAVE DONE] RV 'if ye do.'...
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...
THOUGH YE HAVE DONE THIS. — The rendering of these words is involved in the same obscurity as other details of the narrative. They may mean, “If ye act thus, then will I be avenged on you before I hav...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ שִׁמְשֹׁ֔ון אִֽם ־תַּעֲשׂ֖וּן...
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...
_Of you. He intimates that they should answer for the injustice which they ought to have prevented, or punished sooner. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "If you had done like this," and slain the father and daug...
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 SAMSON SAID UNTO THEM,.... After they had burnt his wife and her father in their dwelling house, by which they thought to appease him, being afraid of him: THOUGH YE HAVE DONE THIS, YET WILL I BE...
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. Ver. 7. _Though ye have done this, yet, &c._] Here he protesteth that he was no way sat...
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...
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease, he would most certainly not rest until he had taken revenge in full upon the Philistines...
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 15:7 Samson H8123 said H559 (H8799) Since H518 do H6213 (H8799) this H2063 revenge H5358 ...
‘ And Samson said to them, “If you behave like this surely I will be avenged on you, and after that I will stop.” The incident had all the appearance of a bitter family feud rather than a political re...
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 14:19; Judges 14:4; Romans 12:19...