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Verse Judges 15:14. _WHEN HE CAME UNTO LEHI_] This was the name of the
_place_ to which they brought him, either to put him to death, or keep
him in perpetual confinement.
_SHOUTED AGAINST HIM_] His...
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THE CORDS ... BECAME AS FLAX ... - i. e. were as weak against his
strength as half-burned flax which yields to the least pressure....
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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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AGAINST. at meeting him, or to meet him. the Spirit. Hebrew. _ruach_.
No art. here.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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See on Judges 14:19....
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_Local traditions_
Provoked by Samson's violence, the Philistines made a raid upon Lehi
in Judah for the purpose of capturing their enemy. The name of the
place was suggestive, and tradition attached...
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_Samson Slays a Thousand Philistines Judges 15:14-20_
14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him:
and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that
were upo...
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_AND THE MEN OF JUDAH SAID, WHY ARE YE COME UP AGAINST US? AND THEY
ANSWERED, TO BIND SAMSON ARE WE COME UP, TO DO TO HIM AS HE HATH DONE
TO US._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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THE SPIRIT] see on Judges 13:25. LOOSED] RV 'dropped.'...
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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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SHOUTED AGAINST HIM. — Rather, _cheered as they came to meet him_
(LXX., ἠλάλαξαν εἰς συνάντησιν
αὐτοῦ_;_ Vulg., _cum vociferantes occurrissent ei_). The verb
_heerioo_ is an onomatopœia, like our “hu...
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הוּא ־בָ֣א עַד ־לֶ֔חִי וּ
פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים הֵרִ֣
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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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MIGHTY AGAINST THE FOE
Judges 15:9
To how low a depth had the men of Judah descended, that they should
hand over their champion to their hereditary foes? The northern tribes
that arose at the call of...
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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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The Philistine army then encamped in Judah against Lehi, which means
"jaw." Three thousand men of Judah went down and bound Samson with two
new ropes and delivered him to the enemy to avoid a war. The...
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_Bone. Hebrew, "Lechi," as it was called after the slaughter made by
Samson, ver. 15. It is about 20 miles to the east of Ascalon. (Calmet)
--- Approach: literally, "the smell." This expression is oft...
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And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and
the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were
upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and h...
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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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AND WHEN HE CAME UNTO LEHI,.... The place which was afterwards so
called, from what happened there at this time, and where the
Philistines were spread, Judges 15:9 this, according to Bunting k, was
si...
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_The Philistines shouted against him_ Because they had now, as they
supposed, their enemy in their hands. _The cords became as flax,_ &c.
As easily broken by him. _His bands loosed from off his hands_...
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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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And when he came unto Lehi, where the headquarters of the enemy were,
THE PHILISTINES SHOUTED AGAINST HIM, their jubilant shouts met him,
for they believed that he was now in their power. AND THE SPIR...
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Samson's Lone Victory...
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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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LOOSED:
_ Heb._ were melted...
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9-17 Sin dispirits men, it hides from their eyes the things that
belong to their peace. The Israelites blamed Samson for what he had
done against the Philistines, as if he had done them a great injur...
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THE PHILISTINES SHOUTED AGAINST HIM, for joy and triumph, because they
had now their great enemy, as they supposed, in their hands. HIS BANDS
LOOSED, Heb. _were melted_, i.e. were dissolved, as things...
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Judges 15:14 came H935 (H8804) Lehi H3896 Philistines H6430 shouting
H7321 (H8689) against H7125 (H8800) Spirit...
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Judges 15:14 a
‘And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him.'
On seeing this ferocious man, who had killed so many of them, bound
and helpless, the Philistines let out a shout...
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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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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 15:14 SPIRIT OF THE LORD. See note on 14:6.
FRESH JAWBONE. Presumably it would not have been dry and brittle, so
there was no
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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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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 15:9
WENT UP, _i.e._ from their own country in the Shephelah to the hill
country of Judah. As Samson had avenged his wrongs on the whole
Philistine people, so they now came up to Ju...
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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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1 Samuel 17:35; 1 Samuel 4:5; Exodus 14:3; Exodus 14:5; Job 20:5;...
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Shouted — Because they had now their enemy, as they supposed, in
their hands. Loosed — Heb. were melted; that is, were dissolved, as
things which are melted in the fire. This typified the resurrection...