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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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_oliveyards_ lit. _vineyard of oliveyard_, which cannot be right; read
_vineyard_ AND _oliveyard_, with LXX, Vulgate; cf. Judges 14:5....
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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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_AND WHEN HE HAD SET THE BRANDS ON FIRE, HE LET THEM GO INTO THE
STANDING CORN OF THE PHILISTINES, AND BURNT UP BOTH THE SHOCKS, AND
ALSO THE STANDING CORN, WITH THE VINEYARDS AND OLIVES._
No JFB com...
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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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INTO THE STANDING CORN OF THE PHILISTINES. — He probably did this at
night, when his actions would be unobserved, and no one would be at
hand to quench the flames. We may imagine him watching the trai...
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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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IN BAD COMPANY
Judges 14:15; Judges 15:1
What strong confirmation is afforded, by Samson's experience, of the
misery of a mixed marriage! This Philistine wife had no real love for
him, and was more r...
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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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And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the
standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the (c) shocks,
and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives.
(c)...
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I pass over the other considerations here noticed to remark the most
interesting, namely, of the suitable punishment on the house of
Samson's wife's father. The Reader will recollect the treachery of...
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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 WHEN HE HAD SET THE BRANDS ON FIRE,.... Disposed as before
related; and foxes being naturally fearful of, and frightened with
fire, and especially so near them as at their tails, would run into
th...
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_And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the
standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and
also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives._
Ver. 5...
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_He let them go_, &c. Successively at several times, and in divers
places, so that they might not hinder one another, nor all run into
the same field; but, being dispersed in all parts, might spread t...
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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 Revenge on the Philistines...
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And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the
standing corn, the grain-fields, OF THE PHILISTINES, AND BURNED UP
BOTH THE SHOCKS, where the grain was already stacked, AND ALSO THE
ST...
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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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1-8 When there are differences between relations, let those be
reckoned the wisest and best, who are most forward to forgive or
forget, and most willing to stoop and yield for the sake of peace. In
t...
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HE LET THEM GO, to wit, successively at several times, and in divers
places, with great care and discretion, so as they might not hinder
one another, nor all run into the same field; but being dispers...
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Judges 15:5 set H1197 (H8686) torches H3940 fire H784 go H7971 (H8762)
grain H7054 Philistines H6430 burned...
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‘And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the
standing corn of the Philistines and burnt up both the shocks, and the
standing corn, and also the olive orchards.'
Having prepared the...
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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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EXPOSTION
JUDGES 15:1
WITHIN A WHILE—the same expression as that in Judges 14:8, rendered
"after a time," and in Judges 11:4, rendered "in_ _process of time."
In the time of
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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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2 Samuel 14:30; Exodus 22:6...
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Let them go — Successively at several times; and in divers places,
so that they might not hinder one another, nor all run into the same
field; but being dispersed in all parts, might spread the plague...