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Verse Judges 15:15. _HE FOUND A NEW JAW-BONE OF AN ASS_] I rather
think that the word טריה _teriyah_, which we translate _new_, and
the margin _moist_, should be understood as signifying the _tabia_...
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SLEW A THOUSAND MEN THEREWITH - Compare the marginal references. The
Philistines, seized with a panic at seeing Samson suddenly burst his
cords and rush at them, offered no resistance, but fell an eas...
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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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JAWBONE OF AN ASS. One of the seven "weak things" in Judges. See note
on Judges 3:21....
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_a thousand men_ The numbers of course belong to the extraordinary
character of the story. Moore notes that, according to Moslem
tradition, the first blood in the cause of Islam was drawn with a
simil...
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_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...
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A NEW JAW-BONE OF AN ASS— Of an ass that had not been long dead,
properly rendered _moist_ in the margin of our Bibles; not so brittle
as one that was dry, and had long lain in the air and the sun. No...
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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 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....
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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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NEW] i.e. fresh: not dry or brittle: such might easily be found lying
on the ground. A THOUSAND MEN] op. Judges 3:31 and 2 Samuel 23:11....
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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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A NEW JAWBONE. — Literally, _a moist jawbone — i.e.,_ the jawbone
of an animal recently dead, and before the bone had become brittle. In
this instance, at any rate, Samson might feel himself absolved...
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וַ יִּמְצָ֥א לְחִֽי ־חֲמֹ֖ור
טְרִיָּ֑ה וַ יִּ
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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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And he found a (i) new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and
took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
(i) That is, of an ass recently slain....
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_There. The Septuagint, Josephus, and the Vulgate agree, reading
Hebrew truth, instead of the present teriya, "fresh," or raw, which
seems an useless remark in this place. (Calmet) --- Asses are very...
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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 HE FOUND A NEW JAWBONE OF AN ASS,.... That is, the jawbone of an
ass lately killed, which perhaps had some of the flesh upon it, the
blood or purulent matter on it; for Jarchi says, he had read in...
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_And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and
took it, and slew a thousand men therewith._
Ver. 15. _And he found a new jaw-bone of an ass._] This holy Hercules
had no better a c...
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_He found a new jaw-bone of an ass_ New, and therefore more tough and
strong; _and slew a thousand men therewith_ Some, to account partly
for this wonderful achievement, have observed that these Phili...
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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, looking about for any kind of a weapon, HE FOUND A NEW JAWBONE OF
AN ASS, of one but recently fallen on the field, whose bones still had
great elasticity, AND PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOOK IT, AND...
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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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NEW:
_ Heb._ moist
HEAPS UPON HEAPS:
_ Heb._ an heap, two heaps...
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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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A NEW JAWBONE, and therefore more tough and strong....
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Judges 15:15 found H4672 (H8799) fresh H2961 jawbone H3895 donkey
H2543 reached H7971 (H8799) hand H3027 took...
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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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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 15:14 SPIRIT OF THE LORD. See note on 14:6.
FRESH JAWBONE. Presumably it would not have been dry and brittle, so
there was no
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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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1 Corinthians 1:27; 1 Corinthians 1:28; 1 Samuel 14:14; 1 Samuel 14:6;...
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New jaw — bone — And therefore the more tough and strong....