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Judges 15:13

And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast and deliver thee into their hand; but surely we will not kill thee. They gave Samson the assurance which he needed for his plans. And they bound him with two new cords and brought him up from the rock, into the camp of the Philistines.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 15:13. _THEY BOUND HIM WITH TWO NEW CORDS_] Probably his _hands_ with one and his _legs_ with the other....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BROUGHT HIM UP FROM THE ROCK. — Again the details are uncertain. Was Samson’s cave down the steep side of a cliff? Such caves are common in Palestine, and such a situation would explain these expressi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֧אמְרוּ לֹ֣ו לֵ אמֹ֗ר לֹ֤א כִּֽי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and (h) deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Cords. Hebrew habothim, Septuagint Greek: Kalodiois, denote strong ropes or cables. (Menochius) --- Etam is not in Hebrew or the Septuagint. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, NO,.... They declared they would not fall upon him themselves and slay him; nor would the Jews put Christ to death themselves, though they were virtually his betrayers...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And they bound him_ Thus was he a type of Christ, who yielded himself to be bound, yea, and led _as a lamb to the slaughter._ Never were men so infatuated as these men _of Judah_, except those who th...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. from the cave or hole in the rock, in which he had secured himself, out of which he was first brought up, and then carried down from the rock to the plain....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 15:13 spoke H559 (H8799) saying H559 (H8800) tie H631 (H8799) securely H631 (H8800) deliver...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And they spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you fast and hand you over into their hands. But certainly we will not kill you.” And they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And they bound him — Thus was he a type of Christ, who yielded himself to be bound, yea and led as a lamb to the slaughter. Never were men so besotted as these men of Judah, except those who thus trea...

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