Jueces 15:14

14 Cuando se acercaba a Lejí, los filisteos salieron a su encuentro con gritos de victoria. En ese momento el Espíritu del SEÑOR vino sobre él con poder, y las sogas que ataban sus brazos se volvieron como fibra de lino quemada, y las ataduras de sus manos se deshicieron.

Jueces 15:14 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 15:14

And when he came unto Lehi
The place which was afterwards so called, from what happened there at this time, and where the Philistines were spread, ( Judges 15:9 ) this, according to Bunting ^F11, was six miles from Etam:

the Philistines shouted against him:
for joy that they had got him into their hands, and in the circumstances he was, being bound, so that they had nothing to fear from him:

and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him:
as it at times did, and had done before; the Targum is,

``the Spirit of might from the Lord,''

which gave him courage and resolution of mind, and great strength of body, even while he was speaking, as a token of the wonders God more than he had at other times:

and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt
with fire;
as easily parted as the flax when fire takes it, which is consumed at once:

and his bonds loosed off from his hands;
by which it appears that both arms and hands were bound with the cords; his arms were pinioned close to his body, as well as his hands were tied together; and these, as in the original, "melted away" ^F12, like wax before the fire, or snow before the sun, so easily were these bands separated from him; this may be an emblem of Christ's loosing himself from the cords of death, ( Acts 2:24 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Travels, p. 116.
F12 (womy) "diffuxerunt", Tigurine version; "liquefacta sunt", Piscator.

Jueces 15:14 In-Context

12 Ellos le dijeron:—Hemos venido a atarte, para entregarte en manos de los filisteos.—Júrenme que no me matarán ustedes mismos —dijo Sansón.

13 —De acuerdo —respondieron ellos—. Solo te ataremos y te entregaremos en sus manos. No te mataremos.Entonces lo ataron con dos sogas nuevas y lo sacaron de la peña.

14 Cuando se acercaba a Lejí, los filisteos salieron a su encuentro con gritos de victoria. En ese momento el Espíritu del SEÑOR vino sobre él con poder, y las sogas que ataban sus brazos se volvieron como fibra de lino quemada, y las ataduras de sus manos se deshicieron.

15 Al encontrar una quijada de burro que todavía estaba fresca, la agarró y con ella mató a mil hombres.

16 Entonces dijo Sansón:«Con la quijada de un asnolos he amontonado.Con una quijada de asnohe matado a mil hombres».