Judges 15:7

And Samson saith to them, 'Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

Young's Literal Translation

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

6And the Philistines say, 'Who hath done this?' And they say, 'Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;' and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.

8And he smiteth them hip and thigh — a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.

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Cross References

Judges 14:4And his father and his mother have not known that from Jehovah it [is], that a meeting he is seeking of the Philistines; and at that time the Philistines are ruling over Israel.

Romans 12:19not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, 'Vengeance [is] Mine,

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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