Jueces 15:3

3 Y Sansón les respondió: Yo seré sin culpa esta vez para con los filisteos, si mal les hiciere.

Jueces 15:3 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 15:3

And Samson said concerning them
His wife's father, and other relations, and the citizens of Timnath; this, which is what follows, he said either within himself respecting them, or he said it to them openly and publicly before them all:

now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a
displeasure;
signifying, that if he did them an ill thing, or what might be reckoned an injury to their persons or properties, and which would be disagreeable and displeasing to them, they could not justly blame him for it, since they had given him such a provocation as to dispose of his wife to another man; though Samson did not mean to act, nor did he act in the following instances as a private person taking private revenge, but as a public person, and judge of Israel; and took occasion, from the private injuries done him, to avenge the public ones of the children of Israel upon the Philistines; and they might thank themselves for giving the opportunity, which they could not justly condemn him for taking.

Jueces 15:3 In-Context

1 Y aconteció después de algunos días, que en el tiempo de la siega del trigo, Sansón visitó a su mujer con un cabrito, diciendo: Entraré a mi mujer a la cámara. Mas el padre de ella no lo dejó entrar.

2 Y dijo el padre de ella: Me persuadí que tú la aborrecías, y la di a tu compañero. Mas su hermana menor, ¿no es más hermosa que ella? Tómala, pues, en su lugar.

3 Y Sansón les respondió: Yo seré sin culpa esta vez para con los filisteos, si mal les hiciere.

4 Y fue Sansón y cogió trescientas zorras, y tomando teas, y trabando aquéllas por la cola, puso entre cada dos colas una tea.

5 Después , encendiendo las teas, echó las zorras en los sembrados de los filisteos, y quemó las mieses amontonadas y en pie, viñas y olivares.