Jueces 15:6

6 —¿Quién hizo esto? —preguntaron los filisteos.
—Sansón —respondieron—, porque su suegro de Timna entregó a su esposa en matrimonio al que fue el padrino de su boda.
Entonces los filisteos fueron a buscar a la mujer y a su padre, y los quemaron vivos.

Jueces 15:6 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 15:6

Then the Philistines said, who hath done this?
&c.] They asked and inquired one of another, who they thought could be the author of such mischief:

and they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite;
this they said either by conjecture, which might be the case of some; and others more confidently asserted it, having heard what he said, ( Judges 15:3 ) and they assign a very good reason for it,

because he had already taken away his wife, and given her to his
companion,
which had provoked him to do such an action as this; and perhaps the very same persons that were very well pleased before that Samson was so served, yet now were full of wrath and indignation at the Timnite, having suffered so much in their property on his account:

and the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire;
Josephus ^F4 says, her and her relations; they set fire to her father's house, where she was, and burnt them both in it, whereby that evil came upon her she thought to avoid by getting the secret of the riddle out of Samson, and telling it to his companion, ( Judges 14:15 ) and suffered the proper punishment for her adultery; the people that did this were those that lived in the towns adjacent, from whence they came up to Timnath, whose fields, vineyards, and oliveyards, had been destroyed by the foxes with their firebrands.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 7.

Jueces 15:6 In-Context

4 Entonces salió y atrapó trescientas zorras. Les ató las colas por parejas y amarró una antorcha a cada par de colas.

5 Después, encendió las antorchas y soltó las zorras para que corrieran por los campos de grano de los filisteos. Así les quemó todo el grano hasta reducirlo a cenizas, aun las gavillas y el grano sin cortar. También les destruyó los viñedos y los olivares.

6 —¿Quién hizo esto? —preguntaron los filisteos.
—Sansón —respondieron—, porque su suegro de Timna entregó a su esposa en matrimonio al que fue el padrino de su boda.
Entonces los filisteos fueron a buscar a la mujer y a su padre, y los quemaron vivos.

7 —¡Por esto que hicieron —juró Sansón—, no descansaré hasta vengarme de ustedes!

8 Luego atacó a los filisteos, lleno de furia, y mató a muchos de ellos. Después se fue a vivir a una cueva en la roca de Etam.