Judges 15:7

7 Samson said to them, "If you want to behave like this, [I swear] I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you."

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 He set fire to the torches and let [the foxes] go into the standing grain of [the] Philistines, and he burned both the stacks of sheaves and the standing grain, up to the vineyards of olive groves.

6 And [the] Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion." And [the] Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire.

7 Samson said to them, "If you want to behave like this, [I swear] I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you."

8 And {he gave them a thorough beating}, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

9 Then [the] Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and they overran Lehi.