Judges 15:7

7 Shimshon said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

Judges 15:7 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 15:7

And Samson said unto them
After they had burnt his wife and her father in their dwelling house, by which they thought to appease him, being afraid of him:

though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you;
not for burning his wife and father-in-law; his sense is, that though they had done this, in order to ingratiate themselves with him, yet he should not stop on this account, but be avenged on them, not for private injuries done to him, or any that had been in connection with him, but for public injuries done to Israel, and their oppression of them:

and after that I will cease;
when he had taken full vengeance on them, and not before.

Judges 15:7 In-Context

5 When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Pelishtim, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

6 Then the Pelishtim said, Who has done this? They said, Shimshon, the son-in-law of the Timni, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Pelishtim came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

7 Shimshon said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of `Etam.

9 Then the Pelishtim went up, and encamped in Yehudah, and spread themselves in Lechi.