Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Judges 15:11
Verse Judges 15:11. Three thousand men of Judah went] It appears evidently from this that Samson was strongly posted, and they thought that no less than three thousand men were necessary to reduce him.
Verse Judges 15:11. Three thousand men of Judah went] It appears evidently from this that Samson was strongly posted, and they thought that no less than three thousand men were necessary to reduce him.
The dispirited men of Judah were prepared to give up their champion, in order to conciliate their masters. This shows how hard was the task of the Judge, whose office it was to restore his countrymen...
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...
_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 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 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....
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...
WENT TO THE TOP OF THE ROCK ETAM. — Rather, _went down to the cave of the rock Etam._ They would easily gain information as to Samson’s hiding-place. WHAT IS THIS THAT THOU HAST DONE UNTO US? — The ab...
וַ יֵּרְד֡וּ שְׁלֹשֶׁת֩ אֲלָפִ֨ים אִ֜ישׁ מִֽ...
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...
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? (g) what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And...
I would not willingly or knowingly strain the pure word of God to bear a construction the Holy Ghost had not in view; but I think, without violence to the passage before us, in these verses, we may se...
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,...
THEN THREE THOUSAND OF JUDAH WENT UP TO THE TOP OF THE ROCK OF ETAM,.... Or "went down" g; that is, into the cave of the rock of Etam, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions; and so it is taken...
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And he...
_What hast thou done unto us?_ Thou hast by these actions punished, not them only, but us, who are sure to smart for it. _We are come down to bind thee_ Why not rather to fight under thy banner? Becau...
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...
Then three thousand men of Judah, blind to the fact that they had, in Samson, a leader of incomparable strength and energy, under whose leadership they might easily have thrown off the bondage of the...
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...
WENT: _ Heb._ went down...
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...
WHAT IS THIS THAT THOU HAST DONE UNTO US? thou hast by these actions punished not them, as thou intendest; but us, who being under their dominion, are sure to smart for it....
Judges 15:11 three H7969 thousand H505 men H376 Judah H3063 went H3381 (H8799) cleft H5585 rock H5553 Etam...
Judges 15:11 a ‘Then three thousand of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam.' The onus was on the men of Judah to hand Samson over, but they were aware what a great task they had. So the...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:13; Deuteronomy 28:47; Deuteronomy 28:48; Judges 13:1;...
Unto us — Thou hast by these actions punished not them only, but us, who are sure to smart for it....