And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
Ver. 10. Why are ye come up against us?] They choose rather to treat than to fight, though they had such a champion as Samson. Hosti discedenti pons aureus extruendus est, et magno precio, precibus, patientia et prudentia, alma pax redimenda. War is woeful, peace a precious commodity: yet not to be sought with the loss of truth. Zec 8:19