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Selected Verse: Judges 15:3 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jud 15:3 |
Strong Concordance |
And Samson [08123] said [0559] concerning them, Now [06471] shall I be more blameless [05352] than the Philistines [06430], though I do [06213] them a displeasure [07451]. |
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King James |
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
HE BURNS THE PHILISTINES' CORN. (Jdg 15:3-8)
Samson said . . ., Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines--This nefarious conduct provoked the hero's just indignation, and he resolved to take signal vengeance. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| See the margin. Before, when the Philistines injured him he was in covenant with the Timnathites through his marriage and by the rites of hospitality, for which reason he went off to Ashkelon to take his revenge Jdg 14:19. But now the Philistines themselves had broken this bond, and so he was free to take his revenge on the spot. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Enraged at this answer, Samson said to them (i.e., to her father and those around him), "Now am I blameless before the Philistines, if I do evil to them." נקּה with מן, to be innocent away from a person, i.e., before him (see Num 32:22). Samson regarded the treatment which he had received from his father-in-law as but one effect of the disposition of the Philistines generally towards the Israelites, and therefore resolved to avenge the wrong which he had received from one member of the Philistines upon the whole nation, or at all events upon the whole of the city of Timnath. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Now shall I, &c. - Because they have first provoked me by an irreparable injury: but although this may look like an act of private revenge; yet it is plain Samson acted as a judge (for so he was) and as an avenger of the publick injuries of his people. |
3 And Samson [08123] said [0559] concerning them, Now [06471] shall I be more blameless [05352] than the Philistines [06430], though I do [06213] them a displeasure [07451].
4 And Samson [08123] went [03212] and caught [03920] three [07969] hundred [03967] foxes [07776], and took [03947] firebrands [03940], and turned [06437] tail [02180] to tail [02180], and put [07760] a [0259] firebrand [03940] in the midst [08432] between two [08147] tails [02180].
5 And when he had set [01197] the brands [03940] on fire [0784], he let them go [07971] into the standing corn [07054] of the Philistines [06430], and burnt up [01197] both the shocks [01430], and also the standing corn [07054], with the vineyards [03754] and olives [02132].
6 Then the Philistines [06430] said [0559], Who hath done [06213] this? And they answered [0559], Samson [08123], the son in law [02860] of the Timnite [08554], because he had taken [03947] his wife [0802], and given [05414] her to his companion [04828]. And the Philistines [06430] came up [05927], and burnt [08313] her and her father [01] with fire [0784].
7 And Samson [08123] said [0559] unto them, Though [0518] ye have done [06213] this [02063], yet will I be avenged [05358] of you, and after [0310] that I will cease [02308].
8 And he smote [05221] them hip [07785] and [05921] thigh [03409] with a great [01419] slaughter [04347]: and he went down [03381] and dwelt [03427] in the top [05585] of the rock [05553] Etam [05862].
19 And the Spirit [07307] of the LORD [03068] came [06743] upon him, and he went down [03381] to Ashkelon [0831], and slew [05221] thirty [07970] men [0376] of them, and took [03947] their spoil [02488], and gave [05414] change [02487] of garments unto them which expounded [05046] the riddle [02420]. And his anger [0639] was kindled [02734], and he went up [05927] to his father's [01] house [01004].
22 And the land [0776] be subdued [03533] before [06440] the LORD [03068]: then afterward [0310] ye shall return [07725], and be guiltless [05355] before the LORD [03068], and before Israel [03478]; and this land [0776] shall be your possession [0272] before [06440] the LORD [03068].