Judges 15:9

And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

10and the men of Judah say, 'Why have ye come up against us?' and they say, 'To bind Samson we have come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.'

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Cross References

Judges 15:14He hath come unto Lehi — and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him — and the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and the thick bands which [are] on his arms are as flax which they burn with fire, and his bands are wasted from off his hands,

Judges 15:19And God cleaveth the hollow place which [is] in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinketh, and his spirit cometh back, and he reviveth; therefore hath [one] called its name 'The fountain of him who is calling,' which [is] in Lehi unto this day.

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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