Judges 15:18-20

18 Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, “You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

19 Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived. So the spring was called En Hakkore,^[a] and it is still there in Lehi.

20 Samson led^[b] Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Judges 15:18-20 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.

Cross References

• 1. Judges 16:28
• 2. S Deuteronomy 20:4
• 3. Genesis 45:27; 1 Samuel 30:12; Isaiah 40:29
• 4. S Exodus 17:6
• 5. Judges 13:1; Judges 16:31; Hebrews 11:32

Footnotes

• [a]. "En Hakkore" means "caller’s spring."
• [b]. Traditionally "judged"