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Verse Judges 15:18. _I DIE FOR THIRST_] The natural consequence of the
excessive fatigue he had gone through in this encounter....
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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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Samson becomes religious when he is in straits; cf. Judges 16:28.
_great deliverance_ Cf. 1 Samuel 19:5; 2 Samuel 23:10; 2 Samuel 23:12
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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 IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING, THAT HE
CAST AWAY THE JAWBONE OUT OF HIS HAND, AND CALLED THAT PLACE
RAMATHLEHI._
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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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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HE WAS SORE ATHIRST. — It was in the heat of harvest time, and he
had pursued the Philistines till he was exhausted.
INTO THE HAND. — Rather, _by the hand.
_...
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וַ יִּצְמָא֮ מְאֹד֒ וַ יִּקְרָ֤א אֶל
־יְהוָה֙
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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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And he was sore athirst, and (k) called on the LORD, and said, Thou
hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and
now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the
uncirc...
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Thirsty. St. Ambrose (ep. 19 or 70) follows Josephus, (Menochius) is
supposing that the arrogance of Samson, in attributing the victory to
his own strength, was thus punished. But others are more favo...
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And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast
given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now
shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumci...
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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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_SAMSON AND THE PHILISTINES_
‘He … called on the Lord.’
Judges 15:18
It was a great indignity and affront that the father of Samson’s
wife offered him, and it was natural enough that he should be g...
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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 HE WAS SORE ATHIRST,.... Which Josephus n thinks came upon him as
a rebuke unto him, for ascribing the victory he had obtained to his
own strength, and not to the Lord, whereby he was shown his ow...
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And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast
given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now
shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumci...
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_He called that place Ramath-lehi_ That is, _The lifting up_, or,
_casting away of the jaw-bone._ He gave it this name in order to
perpetuate the memory of this action. _And he was sore athirst_ A
nat...
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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 he was sore athirst, for the battle and the pursuit of the enemies
had been strenuous work, and it was in the midst of summer, AND CALLED
ON THE LORD, AND SAID, THOU HAST GIVEN THIS GREAT DELIVERA...
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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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18-20 So little notice did the men of Judah take of their deliverer,
that he was ready to perish for want of a draught of water. Thus are
the greatest slights often put upon those who do the greatest...
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HE WAS SORE ATHIRST, so as he was ready to faint and die with thirst;
which was partly natural, from his excessive toil and heat; partly
sent by God, that by the experience of his own impotency he mig...
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‘ And he was extremely thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said,
“You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant,
and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the
uncircumc...
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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 15:18 TO THIS DAY. See note on Josh. 4:9.
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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 17:26; 1 Samuel 17:36; 1 Samuel 27:1; 2 Corinthians 1:8;...
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Sore a thirst — A natural effect of the great pains he had taken.
And perhaps there was the hand of God therein, to chastise him for not
making mention of God in his song, and to keep him from being p...