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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Judges 15 - Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 15

This chapter relates, that Samson being denied his wife, did by a strange stratagem burn the corn fields, vineyards, and olives of the Philistines, Judges 15:1, and that because of their burning her and her father, he made a great slaughter of them, Judges 15:6, which brought the Philistines against the men of Judah, who took Samson and bound him, to deliver him to the Philistines, when he, loosing himself, slew a thousand of them with the jaw bone of an ass,

Judges 15:9 and being athirst, God in a wonderful manner supplied him with water, Judges 15:18.

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See also Judges 15 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGES 13-15. SAMSON AND THE PHILISTINES. About the same time as the Israelites entered Canaan from the east, the Purasati (of the Egyptian monuments), or Philistines, came over the sea from Caphtor ...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 15 Judges 15:1-8 _Samson burns the Philistines-' fields._ Samson left Philistia after he had killed thirty men to give changes of garments to the men who found out his riddle by t...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 ruled, (a-12) _ Shaphat_ , lit. 'judged.' country (b-32) Lit. 'fields,' 'farmlands,' as ver. 6, and elsewhere. As 2 Kings 8:3 ,2 Kings 8:5 ....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XV. Judges 15:1. Samson, desiring to return to his wife, learns that she has been betrothed to another. Judges 15:3. He revenges himself by setting fire to the crops of the Philistines by means of jac...

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

    _A.M. 2864. B.C. 1140._ From the treachery of his wife and her father, Samson takes occasion to burn their corn, Judges 15:1. He smites the Philistines with a great slaughter, Judges 15:6. He slays a...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * Samson is denied his wife, He smites the Philistines. (1-8) Samson kills a thousand of the Philistines with a jaw-bone. (9-17) His distress from thirst. (18-20)...

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