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Judges 15:8
Judges 15:8
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an occasion against them, ch. xiv. 4. Now here we have a further
account of the occasions he took to weaken them, and to avenge, not his…Judges 15 — OverviewJudges 15 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJudges 15:1, Samson is denied his wife; Judges 15:3, He burns the Philistines’ corn with foxes and firebrands; Judges 15:6, His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines; Judges 15:7, Samson smites them hip and…Judges 15 — OverviewJudges 15 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter relates, that Samson being denied his wife, did by a strange stratagem burn the corn fields, vineyards, and olives of the Philistines, Jud 15:1, and that because of their burning her and her father, he made…Judges 15:1-8Judges 15:1-8 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, I. Samson's return to his wife, whom he had left in
displeasure; not hearing perhaps that she was given to another, when
time had a little cooled his resentments, he came back to her, visited
her with…Judges 15:1-8Judges 15:1-8 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSTION
15:1
Within a while—the same expression as that in 14:8, rendered "after a time," and in 11:4, rendered "in process of time." In the time of wheat harvest—about the month of May. The harvest, as appears from…Judges 15:8Judges 15:8 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter,.... Either smote them on their hips and thighs with his hands (for it does not appear he had any weapon of war), so that they were sadly bruised, and maimed, and…