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Verse Judges 15:2. _THOU HADST UTTERLY HATED HER_] As he was conscious
she had given him great cause so to do.
_HER YOUNGER SISTER_] The father appears to have been perfectly
sincere in this offer....
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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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_AND HER FATHER SAID, I VERILY THOUGHT THAT THOU HADST UTTERLY HATED
HER; THEREFORE I GAVE HER TO THY COMPANION: IS NOT HER YOUNGER SISTER
FAIRER THAN SHE? TAKE HER, I PRAY THEE, INSTEAD OF HER._
I v...
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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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The father still desires to be conciliatory to one who might prove so
valuable a son-in-law.
3-8. Samson's Revenge....
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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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VERILY THOUGHT... UTTERLY HATED. — In the emphatic simplicity of the
Hebrew style it is, _Saying I said that hating, thou hatest her._ As
Samson had left his wife in anger immediately after the weddin...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אָבִ֗יהָ אָמֹ֤ר
אָמַ֨רְתִּי֙ כִּי...
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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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_Sister. Jacob married two sisters, and such marriages were not
uncommon among the eastern nations. (Calmet) --- Samson does not
accept the offer, as it was now contrary to the law, Leviticus xviii.
1...
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I beg the Reader to observe with me, merely as a matter of history in
this place, what an awful darkness there must be upon the human mind
by nature, when a father is so lost and insensible to decency...
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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 HER FATHER SAID, I VERILY THOUGHT THAT THOU HADST UTTERLY HATED
HER,.... Not only thought so, but said so, and had said it over and
over again; for the words are, "saying I said" t, affirmed it
co...
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And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated
her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is] not her younger
sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
Ver...
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_That thou hadst utterly hated her_ Because thou didst desert her: but
this was no sufficient cause; for he should have endeavoured to effect
a reconciliation, and not have disposed of another man's w...
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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 her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated
her, the first excuse which popped into his mind, suggested by his
anxiety and fear; THEREFORE I GAVE HER TO THY COMPANION. IS NOT H...
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Samson's Revenge on the Philistines...
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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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TAKE HER:
_ Heb._ let her be thine...
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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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I VERILY THOUGHT THAT THOU HADST UTTERLY HATED HER, because thou didst
desert her in great wrath: but this was not sufficient cause; for he
should have endeavoured a reconciliation, or waited for it;...
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Judges 15:2 father H1 said H559 (H8799) really H559 (H8800) thought
H559 (H8804) thoroughly H8130 ...
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‘ And her father said, “I genuinely thought that you utterly hated
her, therefore I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister
fairer than she? Take her, I pray you, in her place.” '
The fa...
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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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Acts 26:9; Genesis 38:14; Judges 14:16; Judges 14:20...
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Hated her — Because thou didst desert her: but this was no
sufficient cause; for he should have endeavored a reconciliation, and
not have disposed of another man's wife without his consent....