Judges 15:19

_BUT GOD CLAVE AN HOLLOW PLACE THAT WAS IN THE JAW, AND THERE CAME WATER THEREOUT; AND WHEN HE HAD DRUNK, HIS SPIRIT CAME AGAIN, AND HE REVIVED: WHEREFORE HE CALLED THE NAME THEREOF ENHAKKORE, WHICH IS IN LEHI UNTO THIS DAY._ An hollow place ... in the jaw - in Lehi, taking the word as a proper noun, marking the place. HIS SPIRIT CAME AGAIN. His strength, exhausted by the violent and long-continued exertion, was recruited by the refreshing draught from the spring; and it was called En-hakkore, the 'supplication well,' a name which records the piety of this heroic champion....

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 services. Samson prayed to God in this distress. Those that forget to attend God their praises, may be compelled to attend him with their prayers. Past experiences of God's power and goodness, are excellent pleas in prayer for further mercy. He pleads his being exposed to God's enemies; our best pleas are taken from God's glory. The Lord sent him seasonable relief. The place of this action was, from the jaw-bone, called Lehi. And in the place thus called, God caused a fountain suddenly and seasonably to open, close by Samson. We should be more thankful for the mercy of water, did we consider how ill we can spare it. Israel submitted to him whom they had betrayed. God was with him; henceforwa...

Verse Judges 15:19. _GOD CLAVE A HOLLOW PLACE THAT_ WAS _IN THE JAW_] אשר בלחי _asher ballechi, that was in Lehi_; that is, there was a _hollow_ place in this Lehi, and God caused a fountain to spring up in it. Because the place was _hollow_ it was capable of containing the water that rose up in it, and thus of becoming a _well_. _EN-HAKKORE_] _The well of the implorer_; this name he gave to the _spot_ where the water rose, in order to perpetuate the bounty of God in affording him this miraculous supply. _WHICH_ IS _IN LEHI UNTO THIS DAY._] Consequently not IN the _jaw-bone of the ass_, a most unfortunate rendering....

AN HOLLOW PLACE THAT WAS IN THE JAW - The right translation is, “the hollow place which is in Lehi.” The word translated “hollow place,” means a “mortar” Proverbs 27:22, and is here evidently a hollow or basin among the cliffs of Lehi, which, from its shape, was called “the mortar.” A spring, on the way from Socho to Eleutheropolis, was commonly called Samson’s spring in the time of Jerome and writers in the 7th, 12th, and 14th centuries....

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 Judah to take vengeance for Samson's injuries. IN LEHI, or, rather, _hal-Lehi_,_ the Lehi_,_ _the place afterwards so called, as related in Judges 15:17 and Judges 15:20 (see Judges 7:25, note). Lehi has been identified by some with _Tell-el-Lekhiyeh_,_ _four miles above Beer-sheba; and by others with _Beit-Likiyeh_,_ in _the Wa

AND GOD CLAVE AN HOLLOW PLACE THAT WAS IN THE JAW, AND THERE CAME WATER THEREOUT,.... A socket in which was fastened one of the teeth, and was in the form of a mortar; so Jarchi and Ben Melech, as the word for an hollow place signifies; one of the grinders was knocked out, and so the place where it had been was left hollow, and out of that sprung a stream or flow of water; which was very wonderful, since out of such a place rather blood, or purulent matter, would naturally have issued; the Targum is, "the Lord clave the rock which was in the jaw;'' which Kimchi interprets thus, the rock was under the jaw and the rock was made as a hollow place, and therefore they call it "mactes", a mortar: the sense seems to be this, that the place on which Samson cast the jawbone was a rock, and there God clave an hollow place, out of which water sprung, and which perhaps was under the jawbone, and s...

ENHAKKORE The well of him that cried....

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 15:14) 4. His prayer and the answer (Judges 15:18) He discovered next the true character of the Philistines. His wife has been given to another. Nothing came of his alliance with the Philistines but trouble and unpleasantness for himself. Was it of the Lord when he took the 300 foxes (literally, jackals; it would have been hard work to catch 300 foxes, for they go alone, but jackals go in packs) and the fire

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 determined to wreak his revenge upon the Philistines. The stories of the burning of their corn and the slaughter of a thousand of them with an ass's jawbone are good examples of Heb. folklore. [For parallels, especially to a Roman ceremony at the _Cerealia,_ to the story of the foxes, see ICC and CB, also Frazer, _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild,_ i., pp. 296 f. The corn-spirit is sometimes thought to assume the shape of a fox, but this has probably no bearing on this story. A. S. P.] Judges 15:4. Instead of foxes (which do not roam in packs) read jackals. The feud between Samson and the Philistines now became deadly....

GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. Not Jehovah.. sign of distant or withdrawn relationship. in Judges 13:24; Judges 13:25, and Judges 14:4; Judges 14:6, we have Jehovah, but not again in Samson's history till he is humbled, Judges 16:20. then he prays to Jehovah, Jdg 15:28. CLAVE AN HOLLOW PLACE THAT WAS IN THE JAW. clave open the hollow that is in Lehi. SPIRIT. courage. Hebrew. _ru_ ac _h_. App-9. EN-HAKKORE. the Caller's Fount....