Juízes 15:14

14 Quando ia chegando a Leí, os filisteus foram ao encontro dele aos gritos. Mas o Espírito do SENHOR apossou-se dele. As cordas em seus braços se tornaram como fibra de linho queimada, e os laços caíram das suas mãos.

Juízes 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.

Juízes 15:14 In-Context

12 Disseram-lhe: “Viemos amarrá-lo para entregá-lo aos filisteus”.Sansão disse: “Jurem-me que vocês mesmos não me matarão”.

13 “Certamente que não!”, responderam. “Somente vamos amarrá-lo e entregá-lo nas mãos deles. Não o mataremos”. E o prenderam com duas cordas novas e o fizeram sair da rocha.

14 Quando ia chegando a Leí, os filisteus foram ao encontro dele aos gritos. Mas o Espírito do SENHOR apossou-se dele. As cordas em seus braços se tornaram como fibra de linho queimada, e os laços caíram das suas mãos.

15 Encontrando a carcaça de um jumento, pegou a queixada e com ela matou mil homens.

16 Disse ele então:“Com uma queixada de jumentofiz deles montões.Com uma queixada de jumentomatei mil homens”.