Judges 15:19-20

19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, ¹his strength returned and he revived. Therefore * he named * it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

20 So ²he judged Israel twenty years in ³the days of the Philistines.

Judges 15:19-20 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. Isaiah 40:29
• 2. Judges 16:31; Hebrews 11:32
• 3. Judges 13:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "spirit"
• [b]. I.e. the spring of him who called