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Judges 15:8 KJV
Judges · chapter 15 · verse 8
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 · King James Version
Judges 15:8 in context
6Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
7And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
9Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- slaughtermakkâha woundH4347 →
- smotenâkâhto strikeH5221 →
- thighyârêkthe thighH3409 →
- greatgâdôwlgreatH1419 →
- dweltyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- rockçelaʻa craggy rock, literally or figurativelyH5553 →
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Here is, I. Samson's return to his wife, whom he had left in displeasure; not hearing perhaps that she was given to another, when time had a little cooled his resentments, he came back to her, visited her with a kid, Jdg 15:1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8