But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
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.
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
caught three. Dr. Kennicott and others contend, that for foxes, we should read handfuls or sheaves of corn. But
Judges 20:10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes …
Ezekiel 13:9 And my hand shall be on the prophets that see vanity, and that divine …
Ruth 2:15,16 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, …
Psalm 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
Songs 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our …
Lamentations 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.
firebrands or touches
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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.
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
went. Heb. went down. the rock Etham. Probably near the town Etam, mentioned in
1 Chronicles 4:32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, …
Philistines
Judges 13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD…
Judges 14:4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that …
Deuteronomy 28:13,47,48 And the LORD shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall …
Psalm 106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated …
And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
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 upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
the Philistines
Judges 5:30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man …
Judges 10:14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you …
Exodus 14:3,5 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled …
1 Samuel 4:5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, …
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite …
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when …
the Spirit
Judges 3:10 And the Spirit of the LORD came on him, and he judged Israel, and …
Judges 14:6,19 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and he rent him …
Zechariah 4:6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the …
the cords
Judges 16:9,12 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. …
1 Samuel 17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of …
Psalm 18:34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
Psalm 118:11 They compassed me about; yes, they compassed me about: but in the …
Philippians 4:3 And I entreat you also, true yoke fellow, help those women which …
loosed. Heb. were melted
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
new jaw-bone. Heb. moist. slew
Judges 3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines …
Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer …
Judges 7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he …
Leviticus 26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall …
Joshua 23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he …
1 Samuel 14:6,14 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and …
1 Samuel 17:49,50 And David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, and slang …
1 Corinthians 1:27,28 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise…
a thousand. Some would render the words 'a chief'; but it is alluph, and not aileph, which signifies a chief; besides which, the Hebrew idiom would, even in that case, require it to be ish alluph, a man, a chief, and not alluph ish, a chief, a man, Add to which, that every version renders it 'a thousand men.'
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
with the jaw-bone. There is here a fine paronomasia upon the word chamor, 'an ass,' which also signifies 'a heap;' bilchee hachamor, chamor chamorathayim, 'With the jaw-bone of an ass, a heap upon two heaps.' heaps upon heaps. Heb. an heap, two heaps.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
Ramath-lehi. That is, the lifting up of the jaw-bone, or, the casting away of the jaw-bone.
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
he was sore
Judges 8:4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred …
Psalm 22:14,15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my …
John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, …
2 Corinthians 4:8,9 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, …
thou hast given
Psalm 3:7,8 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies …
Psalm 18:31-40 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God…
shall
Genesis 32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose on him, and he halted on his thigh.
2 Corinthians 12:7,8 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance …
and fall
Genesis 12:12,13 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, …
Genesis 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not …
1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul…
2 Corinthians 1:8,9 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which …
Hebrews 11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of …
the uncircumcised
1 Samuel 17:26,36 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall …
2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest …
But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
the jaw. or, Lehi. This reading is certainly preferable; it was in the place called Lehi where a spring was supernaturally opened. there came.
Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods on the dry …
his spirit.
Genesis 45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them: …
1 Samuel 30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of …
Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, …
En-hakkore. Samson gave this expressive name to the miraculously springing water, to be as a memorial of the goodness of God to him. Enhakkore, the well of him that cried, which kept him in remembrance both of his own distress which caused him to cry, and the favour of Jehovah to him in answer to his cry. Many a spring of comfort God opens to his people, which may fitly be called by the name En-hakkore; and this instance of Samson's relief should encourage us to trust in God, for when he pleases he can open rivers in high places.
Isaiah 41:17,18 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their …
Samson at first gave the name of Ramath-lehi (the lifting up of the jaw-bone) which denoted him great and triumphant; but now he gives it another name, Enhakkore, which denotes him wanting and dependent.
Genesis 16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spoke to her, You God see …
Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is …
Genesis 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that …
Genesis 30:30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased …
Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
Psalm 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of …
Psalm 120:1 In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
