Jueces 15:14

14 Cuando Sansón llegó a Lehi, los filisteos salieron gritando de triunfo. Sin embargo, el Espíritu del Señor
vino con poder sobre Sansón, y él rompió las sogas que tenía atadas en los brazos como si fueran hilos de lino quemados, y cayeron de las muñecas.

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 Pero los hombres de Judá le dijeron:
—Vinimos para amarrarte y entregarte a los filisteos.
—Está bien —les dijo Sansón—. Pero prométanme que no me matarán ustedes.

13 —Nosotros solo te amarraremos y te entregaremos a los filisteos —respondieron ellos—. No te mataremos.
Así que lo amarraron con dos sogas nuevas y lo sacaron de la roca.

14 Cuando Sansón llegó a Lehi, los filisteos salieron gritando de triunfo. Sin embargo, el Espíritu del Señor
vino con poder sobre Sansón, y él rompió las sogas que tenía atadas en los brazos como si fueran hilos de lino quemados, y cayeron de las muñecas.

15 Luego Sansón encontró la quijada de un burro recién matado. La levantó, y la usó para matar a mil filisteos.

16 Después dijo:
«¡Con la quijada de un burro,
los he apilado en montones!
¡Con la quijada de un burro,
he matado a mil hombres!».