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Judges 15:14-20

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14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And 1the Spirit of the LORD came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds dropped from his hands.
15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached * out and took it and killed 2a thousand men with it.
16 Then Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, Heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have killed a thousand men."
17 When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
18 Then he became very thirsty, and he 3called to the LORD and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"
19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, 4his strength returned and he revived. Therefore * he named * it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
20 So 5he judged Israel twenty years in 6the days of the Philistines.
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Judges 15:14-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 15

This chapter relates, that Samson being denied his wife, did by a strange stratagem burn the corn fields, vineyards, and olives of the Philistines, Jud 15:1-5, and that because of their burning her and her father, he made a great slaughter of them, Jud 15:6-8, which brought the Philistines against the men of Judah, who took Samson and bound him, to deliver him to the Philistines, when he, loosing himself, slew a thousand of them with the jaw bone of an ass, Jud 15:9-17 and being athirst, God in a wonderful manner supplied him with water, Jud 15:18-20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 6

  • 1. Judges 14:19; 1 Samuel 11:6
  • 2. Leviticus 26:8; Joshua 23:10
  • 3. Judges 16:28
  • 4. Isaiah 40:29
  • 5. Judges 16:31; Hebrews 11:32
  • 6. Judges 13:1

Footnotes 11

  • [a] Lit "rushed upon"
  • [b] Lit "were melted"
  • [c] Lit "stretched out his hand"
  • [d] Lit "smote"
  • [e] Lit "Heap, two heaps;" Heb is same root as donkey
  • [f] Lit "smitten"
  • [g] I.e. the high place of the jawbone
  • [h] Or "I shall...uncircumcised"
  • [i] Or "or"
  • [j] Lit "spirit"
  • [k] I.e. the spring of him who called
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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