Judges 15 - Introduction - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

XV.

Judges 15:1-2. Samson, desiring to return to his wife, learns that she has been betrothed to another. Judges 15:3-5. He revenges himself by setting fire to the crops of the Philistines by means of jackals and fire-brands. Judges 15:6. The Philistines burn his wife and her father. Judges 15:7-8. He inflicts a massacre upon them. Judges 15:9-13. He is handed over to them by the people of Judah. Judges 15:14-17. He breaks his cords, and slaughters a thousand with the jaw-bone of an ass. Judges 15:18-19. The Fountain of the Crier.