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BURNT HER AND HER FATHER - Out of revenge on Samson’s nearest
relations; or, as others think, as an act of justice in favor of
Samson, and in hope of pacifying his anger. Burning was the punishment
fo...
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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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BURNT HER AND HER FATHER. Some codices, with one early printed
edition, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "burned the house of her
father"....
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_her father_ Read with many Hebr. mss., LXX. cod. A, Peshitto etc.
_her father's_ HOUSE, i.e. family, as in the threat Judges 14:15....
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AND THE PHILISTINES CAME UP AND BURNT HER AND HER FATHER WITH FIRE—
Thus they fulfilled their menace uttered in the former chapter, and
the faithless wife gained no advantage by her treachery. But who...
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_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...
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_THEN THE PHILISTINES SAID, WHO HATH DONE THIS? AND THEY ANSWERED,
SAMSON, THE SON IN LAW OF THE TIMNITE, BECAUSE HE HAD TAKEN HIS WIFE,
AND GIVEN HER TO HIS COMPANION. AND THE PHILISTINES CAME UP, AN...
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See Judges 14:15....
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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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THEY ANSWERED. — The phrase is impersonal; but Samson had quite
openly threatened vengeance in speaking to the Timnites, and is not
likely to have done his work unaided or to have been very reticent
a...
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וַ יֹּאמְר֣וּ פְלִשְׁתִּים֮ מִ֣י
עָ֣שָׂה זֹאת֒...
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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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IN BAD COMPANY
Judges 14:15; Judges 15:1
What strong confirmation is afforded, by Samson's experience, of the
misery of a mixed marriage! This Philistine wife had no real love for
him, and was more r...
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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 Philistines sought out the cause of such destruction and found
Samson had committed his act of aggression because his father-in-law
had violated their agreement. So, they burned him and his daught...
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Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered,
Samson, the son in law of the (d) Timnite, because he had taken his
wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up,...
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_Father. Thus they met with the fate which the woman had endeavoured
to avoid, by an infidelity to her husband. (Salien) --- The princes of
the Philistines acknowledged the wrong which had been done t...
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I pass over the other considerations here noticed to remark the most
interesting, namely, of the suitable punishment on the house of
Samson's wife's father. The Reader will recollect the treachery of...
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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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THEN THE PHILISTINES SAID, WHO HATH DONE THIS?.... They asked and
inquired one of another, who they thought could be the author of such
mischief:
AND THEY ANSWERED, SAMSON, THE SON IN LAW OF THE TIMN...
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Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered,
Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife,
and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and...
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_The Philistines came up and burned her_ For the mischief which she
had occasioned them; thus she brought upon herself that mischief which
she studied to avoid. The Philistines had threatened to _burn...
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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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Samson's Revenge on the Philistines...
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Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they, men
acquainted with the facts, ANSWERED, SAMSON, THE SON-IN-LAW OF THE
TIMNITE, BECAUSE HE HAD TAKEN HIS WIFE AND GIVEN HER TO HIS COMPANION.
A...
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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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1-8 When there are differences between relations, let those be
reckoned the wisest and best, who are most forward to forgive or
forget, and most willing to stoop and yield for the sake of peace. In
t...
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Partly for her adultery, which divers heathens punished with death;
and partly for that mischief which she had occasioned to them; thus
she brought upon herself that mischief which she studied to avoi...
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Judges 15:6 Philistines H6430 said H559 (H8799) done H6213 (H8804)
answered H559 (H8799) Samson H8123 son-in-law
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‘ Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said,
“Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he has taken away
his wife, and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came
u...
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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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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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EXPOSTION
JUDGES 15:1
WITHIN A WHILE—the same expression as that in Judges 14:8, rendered
"after a time," and in Judges 11:4, rendered "in_ _process of time."
In the time of
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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 Thessalonians 4:6; Judges 12:1; Judges 14:15; Proverbs 22:8...
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Burnt her — For the mischief which she had occasioned them; thus she
brought upon herself that mischief which she studied to avoid. The
Philistines had threatened to burn her and her father's house wi...