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Selected Verse: Judges 15:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Jud 15:9 |
Strong Concordance |
Then the Philistines [06430] went up [05927], and pitched [02583] in Judah [03063], and spread [05203] themselves in Lehi [03896]. |
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King James |
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. |
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 IS BOUND BY THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND DELIVERED TO THE PHILISTINES. (Jdg 15:9-13)
Then the Philistines went up--to the high land of Judah.
and spread themselves in Lehi--now El-Lekieh, abounding with limestone cliffs; the sides of which are perforated with caves. The object of the Philistines in this expedition was to apprehend Samson, in revenge for the great slaughter he had committed on their people. With a view of freeing his own countrymen from all danger from the infuriated Philistines, he allowed himself to be bound and surrendered a fettered prisoner into their power. Exulting with joy at the near prospect of riddance from so formidable an enemy, they went to meet him. But he exerted his superhuman strength, and finding a new (or moist) jawbone of an ass, he laid hold of it, and with no other weapon, slew a thousand men at a place which he called Ramath-lehi--that is, "the hill of the jawbone." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Spread themselves - An expression used of the Philistine mode of war Sa2 5:18, Sa2 5:22, alluding to the compact way in which they came up the wadys, and then distpersed. Lehi is so called by anticipation (see Jdg 15:17). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Samson is delivered up to the Philistines, and smites them with the jaw-bone of an Ass.
Jdg 15:9
The Philistines came ("went up," denoting the advance of an army: see at Jos 8:1) to avenge themselves for the defeat they had sustained from Samson; and having encamped in Judah, spread themselves out in Lechi (Lehi). Lechi (לחי, in pause לחי, i.e., a jaw), which is probably mentioned again in Sa2 23:11, and, according to Jdg 15:17, received the name of Ramath-lechi from Samson himself, cannot be traced with any certainty, as the early church tradition respecting the place is utterly worthless. Van de Velde imagines that it is to be found in the flattened rocky hill el Lechieh, or Lekieh, upon which an ancient fortification has been discovered, in the middle of the road from Tell Khewelfeh to Beersheba, at the south-western approach of the mountains of Judah.
Jdg 15:10-12
When the Judaeans learned what was the object of this invasion on the part of the Philistines, three thousand of them went down to the cleft in the rock Etam, to bind Samson and deliver him up to the Philistines. Instead of recognising in Samson a deliverer whom the Lord had raised up for them, and crowding round him that they might smite their oppressors with his help and drive them out of the land, the men of Judah were so degraded, that they cast this reproach at Samson: "Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Wherefore hast thou done this (the deed described in Jdg 15:8)? We have come down to bind thee, and deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines." Samson replied, "Swear to me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves." פּגע with בּ, to thrust at a person, fall upon him, including in this case, according to Jdg 15:13, the intention of killing.
Jdg 15:13
When they promised him this, he let them bind him with two new cords and lead him up (into the camp of the Philistines) out of the rock (i.e., the cleft of the rock).
Jdg 15:14
But when he came to Lechi, and the Philistines shouted with joy as they came to meet him, the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, "and the cords on his arms became like two that had been burnt with fire, and his fetters melted from his hands." The description rises up to a poetical parallelism, to depict the triumph which Samson celebrated over the Philistines in the power of the Spirit of Jehovah.
Jdg 15:15-16
As soon as he was relieved of his bands, he seized upon a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, which he found there, and smote therewith a thousand men. He himself commemorated this victory in a short poetical strain (Jdg 15:16): "With the ass's jaw-bone a heap, two heaps; with the ass's jaw-bone I smote a thousand men." The form of the word חמור = חמר is chosen on account of the resemblance to חמור, and is found again at Sa1 16:20. How Samson achieved this victory is not minutely described. But the words "a heap, two heaps," point to the conclusion that it did not take place in one encounter, but in several. The supernatural strength with which Samson rent asunder the fetters bound upon him, when the Philistines thought they had him safely in their power, filled them with fear and awe as before a superior being, so that they fled, and he pursued them, smiting one heap after another, as he overtook them, with an ass's jaw-bone which he found in the way. The number given, viz., a thousand, is of course a round number signifying a very great multitude, and has been adopted from the song into the historical account.
Jdg 15:17
When he had given utterance to his saying, he threw the jaw-bone away, and called the place Ramath-lechi, i.e., the jaw-bone height. This seems to indicate that the name Lechi in Jdg 15:9 is used proleptically, and that the place first received its name from this deed of Samson. |
9 Then the Philistines [06430] went up [05927], and pitched [02583] in Judah [03063], and spread [05203] themselves in Lehi [03896].
10 And the men [0376] of Judah [03063] said [0559], Why are ye come up [05927] against us? And they answered [0559], To bind [0631] Samson [08123] are we come up [05927], to do [06213] to him as he hath done [06213] to us.
11 Then three [07969] thousand [0505] men [0376] of Judah [03063] went [03381] to the top [05585] of the rock [05553] Etam [05862], and said [0559] to Samson [08123], Knowest [03045] thou not that the Philistines [06430] are rulers [04910] over us? what is this that thou hast done [06213] unto us? And he said [0559] unto them, As they did [06213] unto me, so have I done [06213] unto them.
12 And they said [0559] unto him, We are come down [03381] to bind [0631] thee, that we may deliver [05414] thee into the hand [03027] of the Philistines [06430]. And Samson [08123] said [0559] unto them, Swear [07650] unto me, that ye will not fall upon [06293] me yourselves.
13 And they spake [0559] unto him, saying [0559], No; but we will bind [0631] thee fast [0631], and deliver [05414] thee into their hand [03027]: but surely [04191] we will not kill [04191] thee. And they bound [0631] him with two [08147] new [02319] cords [05688], and brought him up [05927] from the rock [05553].
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end [03615] of speaking [01696], that he cast away [07993] the jawbone [03895] out of his hand [03027], and called [07121] that place [04725] Ramathlehi [07437].
22 And the Philistines [06430] came up [05927] yet again [03254], and spread [05203] themselves in the valley [06010] of Rephaim [07497].
18 The Philistines [06430] also came [0935] and spread [05203] themselves in the valley [06010] of Rephaim [07497].
9 Then the Philistines [06430] went up [05927], and pitched [02583] in Judah [03063], and spread [05203] themselves in Lehi [03896].
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end [03615] of speaking [01696], that he cast away [07993] the jawbone [03895] out of his hand [03027], and called [07121] that place [04725] Ramathlehi [07437].
20 And Jesse [03448] took [03947] an ass [02543] laden with bread [03899], and a bottle [04997] of wine [03196], and a [0259] kid [01423] [05795], and sent [07971] them by [03027] David [01732] his son [01121] unto Saul [07586].
16 And Samson [08123] said [0559], With the jawbone [03895] of an ass [02543], heaps [02565] upon heaps [02565], with the jaw [03895] of an ass [02543] have I slain [05221] a thousand [0505] men [0376].
15 And he found [04672] a new [02961] jawbone [03895] of an ass [02543], and put forth [07971] his hand [03027], and took [03947] it, and slew [05221] a thousand [0505] men [0376] therewith.
16 And Samson [08123] said [0559], With the jawbone [03895] of an ass [02543], heaps [02565] upon heaps [02565], with the jaw [03895] of an ass [02543] have I slain [05221] a thousand [0505] men [0376].
14 And when he came [0935] unto Lehi [03896], the Philistines [06430] shouted [07321] against [07125] him: and the Spirit [07307] of the LORD [03068] came mightily [06743] upon him, and the cords [05688] that were upon his arms [02220] became as flax [06593] that was burnt [01197] with fire [0784], and his bands [0612] loosed [04549] from off his hands [03027].
13 And they spake [0559] unto him, saying [0559], No; but we will bind [0631] thee fast [0631], and deliver [05414] thee into their hand [03027]: but surely [04191] we will not kill [04191] thee. And they bound [0631] him with two [08147] new [02319] cords [05688], and brought him up [05927] from the rock [05553].
13 And they spake [0559] unto him, saying [0559], No; but we will bind [0631] thee fast [0631], and deliver [05414] thee into their hand [03027]: but surely [04191] we will not kill [04191] thee. And they bound [0631] him with two [08147] new [02319] cords [05688], and brought him up [05927] from the rock [05553].
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].
10 And the men [0376] of Judah [03063] said [0559], Why are ye come up [05927] against us? And they answered [0559], To bind [0631] Samson [08123] are we come up [05927], to do [06213] to him as he hath done [06213] to us.
11 Then three [07969] thousand [0505] men [0376] of Judah [03063] went [03381] to the top [05585] of the rock [05553] Etam [05862], and said [0559] to Samson [08123], Knowest [03045] thou not that the Philistines [06430] are rulers [04910] over us? what is this that thou hast done [06213] unto us? And he said [0559] unto them, As they did [06213] unto me, so have I done [06213] unto them.
12 And they said [0559] unto him, We are come down [03381] to bind [0631] thee, that we may deliver [05414] thee into the hand [03027] of the Philistines [06430]. And Samson [08123] said [0559] unto them, Swear [07650] unto me, that ye will not fall upon [06293] me yourselves.
17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end [03615] of speaking [01696], that he cast away [07993] the jawbone [03895] out of his hand [03027], and called [07121] that place [04725] Ramathlehi [07437].
11 And after [0310] him was Shammah [08048] the son [01121] of Agee [089] the Hararite [02043]. And the Philistines [06430] were gathered together [0622] into a troop [02416], where was a piece [02513] of ground [07704] full [04392] of lentiles [05742]: and the people [05971] fled [05127] from [06440] the Philistines [06430].
1 And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto Joshua [03091], Fear [03372] not, neither be thou dismayed [02865]: take [03947] all the people [05971] of war [04421] with thee, and arise [06965], go up [05927] to Ai [05857]: see [07200], I have given [05414] into thy hand [03027] the king [04428] of Ai [05857], and his people [05971], and his city [05892], and his land [0776]:
9 Then the Philistines [06430] went up [05927], and pitched [02583] in Judah [03063], and spread [05203] themselves in Lehi [03896].