And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
The Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, х watitsªlach (H6743)] - cleft, broke through; used specially of the Spirit of God proving men: came upon, fell suddenly upon him, communicating those extraordinary coerces by which he was qualified to perform feats of physical strength far beyond the natural capability of man. His rending and killing the shaggy monster, without any weapon in his hand, was accomplished by that superhuman courage and strength which the supernatural influences of the Spirit enabled him to put forth, and by the exertion Of which, in such private incidental circumstances, he was gradually trained to confide in them for the more public work to which he was destined.