Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Judges 15:14
loosed:
Heb. were melted
loosed:
Heb. were melted
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...
THE CORDS ... BECAME AS FLAX ... - i. e. were as weak against his strength as half-burned flax which yields to the least pressure....
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...
AGAINST. at meeting him, or to meet him. the Spirit. Hebrew. _ruach_. No art. here. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
See on Judges 14:19....
_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...
_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...
_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....
THE SPIRIT] see on Judges 13:25. LOOSED] RV 'dropped.'...
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...
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...
הוּא ־בָ֣א עַד ־לֶ֔חִי וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים הֵרִ֣
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...
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...
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 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...
_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...
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...
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 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...
Judges 15:14 [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] upon his arms became as flax that was burnt...
_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_...
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 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...
Samson's Lone Victory...
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...
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...
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...
Judges 15:14 came H935 (H8804) Lehi H3896 Philistines H6430 shouting H7321 (H8689) against H7125 (H8800) Spirit...
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...
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 15:14 SPIRIT OF THE LORD. See note on 14:6. FRESH JAWBONE. Presumably it would not have been dry and brittle, so there was no
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...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 17:35; 1 Samuel 4:5; Exodus 14:3; Exodus 14:5; Job 20:5;...
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...