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SPREAD THEMSELVES - An expression used of the Philistine mode of war 2
Samuel 5:18, 2 Samuel 5:22, alluding to the compact way in which they
came up the wadys, and then distpersed. Lehi is so called b...
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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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PITCHED. camped....
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_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...
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_spread themselves in Lehi_ Better, _made a raid against Lehi_; 2Sa
5:18; 2 Samuel 5:22. The situation of Lehi is unknown; it must have
been nearer to the Philistines than Etam, and in the neighbourho...
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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 WENT UP, AND PITCHED IN JUDAH, AND SPREAD
THEMSELVES IN LEHI._
Then the Philistines went up - to the high land of Judah.
AND SPREAD THEMSELVES IN LEHI - a district on the borde...
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LEHI] The name means 'jawbone,' perhaps from some resemblance in its
shape. The site is not definitely known.
10, 11. Each party represents the other as the aggressor. Observe
Judah's dread of the Ph...
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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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THEN THE PHILISTINES WENT UP. — They “went up” in hostile array
against the hill-country of Judea to take vengeance for the dreadful
injury which Samson had inflicted on them.
SPREAD THEMSELVES IN LEH...
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וַ יַּעֲל֣וּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַֽ
יַּחֲנ֖וּ בִּ...
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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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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...
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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 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...
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_Spread. Hebrew, "encamped in Juda, and spread themselves in Lechi."
(Haydock)_...
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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...
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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 WENT UP,.... From Palestine, which lay low on the
shore of the Mediterranean sea:
AND PITCHED IN JUDAH; in the laud of Judea, which lay higher,
particularly in the tribe of Judah...
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_Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread
themselves in Lehi._
Ver. 9. _Spread themselves in Lehi._] Which showeth that they were a
great army that came to fetch their bane. "As...
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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 Lone Victory...
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Then the Philistines, in order to take revenge for the slaughter
inflicted upon them by Samson, WENT UP, taking the field against
Israel, AND PITCHED IN JUDAH, encamped in the territory of this tribe,...
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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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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...
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The rock Etam was IN JUDAH: see 1 CHRONICLES 4:32 2 CHRONICLES 11:5,6.
SPREAD THEMSELVES, as coming in great numbers with a powerful host.
LEHI; a place so called by anticipation, Judges 15
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Judges 15:9 Philistines H6430 up H5927 (H8799) encamped H2583 (H8799)
Judah H3063 deployed H5203 (H8735) Lehi...
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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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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...
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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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Judges 15:17; Judges 15:19...