Judges 15:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. ”

• Judges 15:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Spread themselves - An expression used of the Philistine mode of war 2 Samuel 5:18 , 2 Samuel 5:22 , alluding to the compact way in which they came up the wadys, and then distpersed. Lehi is so...

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• Judges 15:9 - 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,...

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• Judges 15:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  pitched . camped.

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• Judges 15:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

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• Judges 15:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. Then the Philistines went up - to the high land of Judah. And spread themselves in Lehi - a district on...

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• Judges 15:9 - 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...

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• Judges 15:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then the Philistines went up. — They “went up” in hostile array against the hill-country of Judea to take vengeance for the dreadful injury which Samson had inflicted on them. Spread themselves i...

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• Judges 15:9 - 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...

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• Judges 15:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Mighty against the Foe Judges 15:9-20 To how low a depth had the men of Judah descended, that they should hand over their champion to their hereditary foes? The northern tribes that arose at th...

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• Judges 15:9 - 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...

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• Judges 15:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I would not willingly or knowingly strain the pure word of God to bear a construction the Holy Ghost had not in view; but I think, without violence to the passage before us, in these verses, we may s...

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• Judges 15:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then the Philistines went up ,.... From Palestine, which lay low on the shore of the Mediterranean sea: and pitched in Judah ; in the laud of Judea, which lay higher, particularly in the tribe of...

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• Judges 15:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. Ver. 9. Spread themselves in Lehi. ] Which showeth that they were a great army that came to fetch their bane. "...

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• Judges 15:9 - 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...

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• Judges 15:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Samson Bound by the Men of Judah. B. C. 1140.       9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitc...

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• Judges 15:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The rock Etam was in Judah: see 1 Chronicles 4:32 2 Chronicles 11:5,6 . Spread themselves, as coming in great numbers with a powerful host. Lehi; a place so called by anticipation, Judge...

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• Judges 15:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.' The Philistines came to Judah and camped in some considerable force, spreading out in the region of Lehi in J...

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• Judges 15:9 - 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...

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• Judges 15:9 - 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...

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• Judges 15:9 - 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...

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• Judges 15:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Judges 15:9 Went up , i.e. from their own country in the Shephelah to the hill country of Judah. As Samson had avenged his wrongs on the whole Philistine people, so they now c...

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• Judges 15:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Then the Philistines, in order to take revenge for the slaughter inflicted upon them by Samson, went up, taking the field against Israel, and pitched in Judah, encamped in the territory of this t...

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• Judges 15:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Judges 15:17 ; Judges 15:19

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