Judges 15:9

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

Judges 15:9 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 15:9

Then the Philistines went up
From Palestine, which lay low on the shore of the Mediterranean sea:

and pitched in Judah;
in the laud of Judea, which lay higher, particularly in the tribe of Judah, whither they came with an army, and encamped there:

and spread themselves in Lehi;
their forces were so many, that they extended a considerable way, and particularly reached to Lehi, that is, which was afterwards so called; for it has its name by anticipation from the jaw bone, which it signifies, with which Samson slew many in this place, as after related.

Judges 15:9 In-Context

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.

10 And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" And they said, "To bind Samson; to do to him just as he did to us."

11 Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines [are] ruling over us? What [is] this [that] you have done to us?" And he said to them, "Just as they did to me, so I have done to them."