Judges 15:9

9 The Philistines went up and camped in the land of Judah, near a place named 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 Then Samson said to the Philistines, "Since you did this, I won't stop until I pay you back!"

8 Samson attacked the Philistines and killed many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.

9 The Philistines went up and camped in the land of Judah, near a place named Lehi.

10 The men of Judah asked them, "Why have you come here to fight us?" They answered, "We have come to make Samson our prisoner, to pay him back for what he did to our people."

11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "What have you done to us? Don't you know that the Philistines rule over us?" Samson answered, "I only paid them back for what they did to me."