Judges 15:9

spread themselves in Lehi Better, made a raid against Lehi; 2Sa 5:18; 2 Samuel 5:22. The situation of Lehi is unknown; it must have been nearer to the Philistines than Etam, and in the neighbourhood of the other places already mentioned. The name = jawbone(LXX Judges 15:14 Siagôn) was no doubt suggested by the formation of a prominent rock; cf. Ass's Jaw (Ὄνου γνάθος), the name of a peninsula W. of Cape Malea in the Peloponnese (Strabo, p. 363), and the Arabic place-name Camel's Jaw (laḥy gamal, quot. by Wellhausen).

10f. The Philistines have no quarrel with any one but Samson, and the Judaeans exhibit no resentment against their alien rulers. This shews that Samson's attacks upon the Philistines were of a purely local and private nature, and that the Israelites in this part of the country had not yet acquired any sense of national feeling or of a common cause.