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Themes in Judges 15

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Themes in Judges 15

Judges 15:1 (show verse)

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

Goat » The young of » Given as a present
Samson » Wife of, estranged

Judges 15:2 (show verse)

Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Please take her, instead."

Samson » Wife of, estranged

Judges 15:3 (show verse)

Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."

Philistines » Samson » Burned vineyards, &c of
Samson » Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife

Judges 15:4 (show verse)

Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.

Animals » Names of » Foxes
Arson » Instances of » By samson
Fire » Characterized as » Consuming
Firebrand » Used by samson
Fox » Samson uses, to burn the field of the philistines
Foxes » Abounded in palestine
Foxes » Used by samson for annoying the philistines
Philistines » Samson » Burned vineyards, &c of
Samson » A life of contrasts » Childish in his plans
Samson » Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife

Judges 15:5 (show verse)

And when he had set fire to the torches, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

Arson » Instances of » By samson
Corn » Shocks of, burnt
Fire » Characterized as » Consuming
Foxes » Used by samson for annoying the philistines
Grape » Cultivated in vineyards » By the philistines
Philistines » Samson » Burned vineyards, &c of
Samson » Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife

Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

Foxes » Used by samson for annoying the philistines
Samson » Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife
Timnath » Home of samson's wife

Judges 15:7 (show verse)

Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease."

Philistines » Samson » Slew many for burning his wife
Retaliation » Examples of
Revenge » Exemplified
Revenge » Exemplified » By samson
Samson » His great strength
Samson » Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife

Judges 15:8 (show verse)

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Etam » A rock where samson was bound and delivered to the philistines
Philistines » Samson » Slew many for burning his wife
Revenge » Exemplified » By samson
Rocks » Mentioned in scripture » Etam
Samson » His great strength
Samson » Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife

Judges 15:9 (show verse)

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

Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Samson » His great strength

Judges 15:10 (show verse)

The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us."

Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Samson » His great strength

Judges 15:11 (show verse)

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."

Etam » A rock where samson was bound and delivered to the philistines
Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Samson » His great strength
Samson » A life of contrasts » Yet courageous in battle

Judges 15:12 (show verse)

They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves."

Judges 15:13 (show verse)

They spoke to him, saying, "No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

Cord » Ancient uses of » Binding prisoners
Cords » Cords
Etam » A rock where samson was bound and delivered to the philistines
Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Samson » His great strength
Samson » A life of contrasts » Yet courageous in battle
Samson » Kills one-thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey

Judges 15:14 (show verse)

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Samson » A life of contrasts » Spiritual at times
Samson » His great strength
Samson » A life of contrasts » Yet courageous in battle
Samson » Kills one-thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey

Judges 15:15 (show verse)

And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and reached down and took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

Ass (donkey) » Domesticated » Jawbone of, used by samson with which to kill philistines
Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Miracles wrought through servants of God » Samson » Philistines killed
Philistines » Samson » Slew a thousand with the jawbone of an ass
Power » Small things God uses » A jaw-bone
Samson » Kills one-thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Weak » Instrumentalities » A jaw-bone

Judges 15:16 (show verse)

Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men."

Ass (donkey) » Domesticated » Jawbone of, used by samson with which to kill philistines
Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Philistines » Samson » Slew a thousand with the jawbone of an ass
Samson » Kills one-thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey

Judges 15:17 (show verse)

It happened, when he had finished speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.

Ass (donkey) » Domesticated » Jawbone of, used by samson with which to kill philistines
Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Ramath-lehi » The place where samson killed one-thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Samson » Kills one-thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey

Judges 15:18 (show verse)

He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"

Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Prayer, answers to » Samson
Samson » Miraculously supplied with water

Judges 15:19 (show verse)

And God split the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore its name was called En Hakore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

Domestic Donkeys » Miracles connected with » A thousand men slain by samson with a jaw-bone of
Domestic Donkeys » Miracles connected with » Water brought from the jaw-bone of
En-hakkore » A spring, miraculously supplied to samson
Lehi » A district » A district of judah, where samson killed a thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Miracles » Catalogue of » Samson supplied with water
Prayer, answers to » Samson
Samson » Miraculously supplied with water
Water » -of feet -of hands » For drinking
Water » Miracles connected with » Brought from the jaw-bone of an ass
Water » Miraculously supplied » To samson

Judges 15:20 (show verse)

He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Israel » Under the judges » Led » Samson » 20 years