Judges 15:5

5. Let them go Hebrew, ישׁלח , sent them. A hundred and fifty pairs, starting forth from different points and running in different directions, each pair carrying a firebrand, would rapidly spread destruction far and wide.

The standing corn Wheat yet uncut. This often, in the East, as on our western prairies, extends as far as eye can reach in one apparently unbroken field.

Shocks Not carefully arranged shocks of bound sheaves, as with us, but heaps of the grain, either bound or unbound, loosely piled up for temporary convenience.

Vineyards and olives Rather, gardens of olives. Large olive groves still abound in the plain of Philistia. “The cornfields of Philistia,” says Stanley, “then as now interspersed with olive groves, lay stretched in one unbroken expanse before him, to invite his facetious outrage. The mischievousness of the conflagration of the cornfields by means of the jackals is subordinate to the ludicrousness of the sight, as, from the hill of Zorah, the contriver of the scheme must have watched the streams of fire spreading through corn-fields and orchards in the plain below.”