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Verse Judges 15:17. _RAMATH-LEHI._] The _lifting up_ or _casting away
of the_ _jaw-bone_. Lehi was the name of the place before, _Ramath_
was now added to it here; he _lifted up_ the jaw-bone against...
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RAMATH-LEHI - Either the “height or hill of Lehi,” or, “of the
jaw-bone;” or, as in the margin, “the crestlag away of the
jaw-bone,” with allusion to Samson casting it out of his hand, when
he had fin...
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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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BAMATH-LEHI. the uplifting of the jawbone....
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_Samson Slays a Thousand Philistines Judges 15:14-20_
14 And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him:
and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that
were upo...
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING, THAT HE
CAST AWAY THE JAWBONE OUT OF HIS HAND, AND CALLED THAT PLACE
RAMATHLEHI._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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CALLED THAT PLACE] RV 'that place was called.' Properly, Ramath means
'height.' The name was 'Jawbone height': by another pun the meaning
'Jawbone-throw' is suggested....
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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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RAMATH-LEHI. — The marginal rendering, _“_the lifting up of the
jawbone” is found in the LXX. and Vulg., and derives Ramath from the
verb _rûm,_” to be high.” The more natural explanation is, “the
hil...
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וַֽ יְהִי֙ כְּ כַלֹּתֹ֣ו לְ דַבֵּ֔ר וַ
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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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Which is, &c. This is added by the Vulgate being the interpretation of
the Septuagint Anairesis; (Calmet) though it also signify, "the
slaughter." (St. Ambrose, ep. 19.) (Haydock) --- The Syriac and A...
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Certainly there is somewhat wonderfully striking in this man ' s
history, and the most instructive view we can take of it is, when it
serves to lead our hearts to Jesus. And how hath the Son of God, b...
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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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AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING,.... Of
delivering out the above song, which very probably consisted of much
more than what is here expressed:
THAT HE CAST AWAY THE JAWBONE O...
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And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast
away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
Ver. 17. _And called that place Ramathlehi._] We must likewi...
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_He called that place Ramath-lehi_ That is, _The lifting up_, or,
_casting away of the jaw-bone._ He gave it this name in order to
perpetuate the memory of this action. _And he was sore athirst_ A
nat...
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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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And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, when he had
uttered his song of victory, THAT HE CAST AWAY THE JAWBONE OUT OF HIS
HAND AND CALLED THAT PLACE RAMATH-LEHI (hill of the jawbone)...
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Samson's Lone Victory...
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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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RAMATHLEHI:
that is, the lifting up of the jawbone, or, casting away of the
jawbone...
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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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And by contraction, _Lehi_, JUDGES 15:14, it being usual so to
contract proper names; as _Salem_ is put for _Jerusalem_, PSALMS 76:2;
_Sheba_ for _Beer-sheba_, JOSHUA 19:2; and many other....
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Judges 15:17 finished H3615 (H8763) speaking H1696 (H8763) threw H7993
(H8686) jawbone H3895 hand H3027 called...
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‘ And so it was that, when he had finished speaking, he cast away
the jawbone out of his hand, and that place was called Ramath-lehi.'
Ramath-lehi means ‘Jawbone Hill', but also ‘Tossed-away-jawbone',...
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RAMATHLEHI
The hill of the jawbone....
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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...
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Ramath — Lehi — That is, the lifting up of the jaw — bone; by
contraction Lehi, Judges 15:14, as Salem is put for Jerusalem....