Jud 15:1
15:1 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 {a} go in to my wife into the chamber. But
     her father would not suffer him to go in.

     (a) That is, I will use her as my wife.

Jud 15:3
15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more {b}
     blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a
     displeasure.

     (b) For through his father-in-law's actions, he was moved
         again to take vengeance on the Philistines.

Jud 15:5
15:5 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 {c} shocks, and also the standing corn, with the
     vineyards [and] olives.

     (c) Or, that which was reaped and gathered.

Jud 15:6
15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they
     answered, Samson, the son in law of the {d} Timnite,
     because he had taken his wife, and given her to his
     companion. And the Philistines came up, and {e} burnt her
     and her father with fire.

     (d) Or, the citizen of Timnath.
     (e) So the wicked do not punish vice for love of justice,
         but for fear of danger, which also might come to them.

Jud 15:10
15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us?
      And they answered, To {f} bind Samson are we come up, to
      do to him as he hath done to us.

      (f) And so being our prisoner to punish him.

Jud 15:11
15:11 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? {g} 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.

      (g) Such was their gross ignorance, that they judged God's
          great benefits to be a plague to them.

Jud 15:13
15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee
      fast, and {h} 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.

      (h) Thus they would rather betray their brother than use
          the means that God had given for their deliverance.

Jud 15:15
15:15 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.

Jud 15:18
15:18 And he was sore athirst, and {k} 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?

      (k) By which it appears that he did these things in faith,
          and so with a true zeal to glorify God, and deliver
          his country.



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