Judges 15:7

And Samson said to them, Though ye do the like of this, yet will I be avenged upon you, and, afterwards, will I cease.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

In Context

6Then said the Philistines—Who hath done this? And they said—Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion. So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father, with fire.

8So he smote them, leg on thigh, with a great smiting,—and went down and dwelt in a cleft of the crag Etam.

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Cross References

Judges 14:4Now, his father and his mother, knew not, that, from Yahweh, it was, that, an occasion, he was seeking of the Philistines,—at that time, the Philistines having dominion over Israel.

Romans 12:19Not avenging, yourselves, beloved, but give place unto their anger; for it is written—Mine, is avenging, I, will recompense;—saith the Lord;

Matthew Henry on Judges 15:2-9

Samson's Firebrands. ( b. c. 1141.) 1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. 2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. 3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than… Read the whole commentary →

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