Judges 15:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. ”

Judges 15:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hip and thigh - A proverbial expression of doubtful origin, meaning all the “great” and “mighty,” all the choice pieces like the thigh and shoulder. In the top of the rock - Rather, “the clef...
Judges 15:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 15. Samson against the Philistines. His anger having cooled, Samson went down to appease his betrothed and complete the marriage. When he learned how things stood, he was angrier than ever,...
Judges 15:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

went down. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Syriac, read "went". top . cleft.
Judges 15:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. He smote them hip and thigh - This also is variously understood; but the general meanin...
Judges 15:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And he smote them hip and thigh— Houbigant renders this, and he contended with them, and slew them with a great slaughter; observing, that the idea is taken from the action of wrestlers. It seems...
Judges 15:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. Smote them hip and thigh - a proverbial expression for a merciless slaughter....
Judges 15:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Samson Slaughters the Philistines Samson, being denied his wife, burns the corn of the Philistines. He is delivered up to them by the men of Judah, but bursts his bonds, and slaughters many of the...
Judges 15:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hip and thigh. — There is no doubt that the expression intensifies the words “with a great slaughter;” but the origin of the phrase is a matter of conjecture. It may be purely general, like the Ger...
Judges 15:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

DAUNTLESS IN BATTLE, IGNORANTLY BRAVE Judges 15:1-20 GIVEN a man of strong passions and uninstructed conscience, wild courage and giant energy, with the sense of a mission which he has to accom...
Judges 15:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

in Bad Company Judges 14:15-20 ; Judges 15:1-8 What strong confirmation is afforded, by Samson's experience, of the misery of a mixed marriage! This Philistine wife had no real love for him, a...
Judges 15:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the record of further exploits by Samson and once more the circumstances of them were not to his credit. His revenge on the Philistines in the destruction of their property and their sl...
Judges 15:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I pass over the other considerations here noticed to remark the most interesting, namely, of the suitable punishment on the house of Samson's wife's father. The Reader will recollect the treachery of...
Judges 15:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter ,.... Either smote them on their hips and thighs with his hands (for it does not appear he had any weapon of war), so that they were sadly brui...
Judges 15:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. Ver. 8. And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, ] i.e., Wherever...
Judges 15:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He smote them hip and thigh This seems to be merely a proverbial expression to denote a desperate attack and total overthrow. And he went down , or, rather, went and dwelt For it is an idiom of...
Judges 15:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DESTROYING CROPS AND PHILISTINES (vv. 1-8) Samson eventually decided to visit his wife and took a young goat as a gift. She was evidently still in her father's house and her father refused him p...
Judges 15:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Samson's Firebrands. B. C. 1141. 1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time...
Judges 15:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hip and thigh; upon their hips and thighs, peradventure not designing to kill them, but to make them incapable of military employment, or of doing hurt to the Israelites. Or, He smote them with hi...
Judges 15:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 15:8 a ‘And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter.' It is possible that Samson actually appeared while they were doing their foul deed and that when he saw them, having crie...
Judges 15:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

REVENGE TAKEN AND RETURNED ( Judges 15:1-20 .) CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 15:1 . Within a while after. ] After some time , indefinitely; probably a few months. In the time of wheat harvest .] Abou...
Judges 15:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 15:4 . Caught three hundred foxes. The task of collecting these animals was not at all impossible; the country very much abounded with foxes, as appears from many passages of scripture. Ne...
Judges 15:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her. Wrong-doers naturally seek to justify themselves This spirit of self-justification, which is generally associated with wrong-doing, appeared...
Judges 15:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSTION Judges 15:1 Within a while —the same expression as that in Judges 14:8 , rendered "after a time," and in Judges 11:4 , rendered "in process of time." In the time of wheat ha...
Judges 15:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Samson's Revenge on the Philistines
Judges 15:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 25:10 ; Isaiah 63:3 ; Isaiah 63:6
Judges 15:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hip and thigh — It seems to be a phrase, to express a desperate attack, attended with the utmost hurry and confusion: and perhaps intimates, that they all fled before him. So he smote them in the h...

Judges 15:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judges 15:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 15:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Judges 15:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 15:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 15:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 15:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 15:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 15:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 15:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 15:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 15:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 15:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 15:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 15:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 15:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 15:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 15:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 15:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 15:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 15:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 15:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 15:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 15:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 15:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 15:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes