Judges 15:6-8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Judges 15:1-20

Samson’s exploits (14:1-16:31)So dominant were the Philistines in Israel, that the Israelites had decided to live with them peacefully rather than try to rise up in armed rebellion. Samson had other ideas. He thought that his marriage to a Philistine woman would give him the opportunity to do some harm to the enemy (14:1-4).In spite of Samson’s desire to help Israel, he had little respect for either his Nazirite vow or the Israelite law. He handled a dead lion, married a Philistine woman and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 15:6

burnt her and her father. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "burned the house of her father". read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 15:7

this = like [this]: i.e. on this wise. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Judges 15:8

went down. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Syriac, read "went". top = cleft. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Judges 15:6

Judges 15:6. And the Philistines came up and burnt her and her father with fire— Thus they fulfilled their menace uttered in the former chapter, and the faithless wife gained no advantage by her treachery. But who can help remarking, on a circumstance like this, the savage barbarity of those times? read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Judges 15:8

Judges 15:8. And he smote them hip and thigh— Houbigant renders this, and he contended with them, and slew them with a great slaughter; observing, that the idea is taken from the action of wrestlers. It seems to be a merely proverbial expression, signifying a total overthrow. The French render it, il les battit entierement, he beat them entirely; Isaiah 9:14. Etam was a strong place in the tribe of Judah, to the top of which there was a passage only capable of admitting a single man at a time.... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Judges 15:6

6. Who hath done this—The author of this outrage, and the cause that provoked such an extraordinary retaliation, soon became known; and the sufferers, enraged by the destruction of their crops, rushing with tumultuous fury to the house of Samson's wife, "burnt her and her father with fire." This was a remarkable retribution. To avoid this menace, she had betrayed her husband; and by that unprincipled conduct, eventually exposed herself to the horrid doom which, at the sacrifice of conjugal... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Judges 15:7

7. Samson said . . ., Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you—By that act the husbandmen had been the instruments in avenging his private and personal wrongs. But as a judge, divinely appointed to deliver Israel, his work of retribution was not yet accomplished. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Judges 15:8

8. smote them hip and thigh—a proverbial expression for a merciless slaughter. he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam—rather went down and dwelt in the cleft—that is, the cave or cavern of the cliff Etam. :-. HE IS BOUND BY THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND DELIVERED TO THE PHILISTINES. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Judges 15:1-8

Samson’s revenge on the Timnites 15:1-8Wheat harvest took place in late May or early June in this part of Palestine. [Note: Cundall and Morris, p. 168.] Samson’s anger had cooled, and he decided to return to Timnah and arrange for the completion of his marriage. Instead of flowers or candy he took a young goat as a gift for his fiancée. The woman’s father, however, claimed that he was sure Samson so thoroughly hated his daughter because of her betrayal that he would never want to marry her.... read more

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