Judges 15 Footnotes

15:3-8 Whatever Samson did, he did it in a big way. He killed thirty men to get their clothes, traveling fifty miles round trip to do so (14:19). He used three hundred foxes to burn the Philistine fields and vineyards (15:4-5). He overwhelmed the Philistines with a great slaughter (v. 8). He killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey (v. 15). But his career is, in general, an example of the squandering of God’s endowment of strength on self-centered pursuits.