Shofetim 15:7

7 And Shimshon said unto them, Since ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you and after that I will cease.

Shofetim 15:7 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 15:7

And Samson said unto them
After they had burnt his wife and her father in their dwelling house, by which they thought to appease him, being afraid of him:

though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you;
not for burning his wife and father-in-law; his sense is, that though they had done this, in order to ingratiate themselves with him, yet he should not stop on this account, but be avenged on them, not for private injuries done to him, or any that had been in connection with him, but for public injuries done to Israel, and their oppression of them:

and after that I will cease;
when he had taken full vengeance on them, and not before.

Shofetim 15:7 In-Context

5 And when he lit eish to the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Pelishtim, and burned up both the harvested grain and also the standing grain, and also olive orchards.

6 Then the Pelishtim said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Shimshon, the choson of the Timni, because he had taken his isha, and given her to his companion. And the Pelishtim came up, and burned her and her av with eish.

7 And Shimshon said unto them, Since ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you and after that I will cease.

8 And he struck them hip and thigh with a makkah gedolah; and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

9 Then the Pelishtim went up and encamped in Yehudah, and spread themselves out in Lechi.