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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Judges 15:12

Not that he feared them, or could not as easily have conquered them, as he did the whole host of the Philistines; but because he would be free from all obligation or temptation of doing them any harm, though it were in his own just and necessary defence.

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See also Judges 15:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 15:12. _THAT YE WILL NOT FALL UPON ME YOURSELVES._] He could not bear the thought of contending with and slaying his own countrymen; for there is no doubt that he could have as easily res...

  • 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

    SWEAR UNTO ME, THAT YE WILL NOT FALL UPON ME YOURSELVES. — It seems as if Samson were parleying with them from some point of vantage which he could easily have defended for a time....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֤אמְרוּ לֹו֙ לֶ אֱסָרְךָ֣ יָרַ֔דְנוּ לְ

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Kill me, in a treacherous manner. He was not afraid of them. (Calmet)_...

  • 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 SAID UNTO HIM, WE ARE COME DOWN TO BIND THEE,.... That is, they were come down into the cave where he was; otherwise more properly they were come up to the top of the rock: THAT WE MAY DELIV...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. V...

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

    _What hast thou done unto us?_ Thou hast by these actions punished, not them only, but us, who are sure to smart for it. _We are come down to bind thee_ Why not rather to fight under thy banner? Becau...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines, an act of betrayal by which they hoped to save their lives and fortunes. AND SAMSON SA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Samson's Lone Victory...

  • 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 15:12 said H559 (H8799) down H3381 (H8804) arrest H631 (H8800) deliver H5414 (H8800) hand...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Judges 15:12 a ‘And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, so that we may deliver you into the hands of the Philistines.” ' The men of Judah approached the issue with Samson tentatively. 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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 2:25; 1 Kings 2:34; Acts 7:25; Judges 8:21; Matthew 27:2...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bind thee — Why not rather, to fight under thy banner? Because sin dispirits men, nay, it infatuates them, and hides from their eyes the things that belong to their peace. Swear — Not that he feared t...

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