Juízes 15
Adam Clarke · Citado em PreceptAustin
Juízes 15
Clarke - On her betraying him, he had, no doubt, left her in great disgust. After some time his affection appears to have returned and, taking a kid, or perhaps a fawn, as a present, he goes to make reconciliation And her father said, "I really thought that you hated (sane; Lxx - miseo) her intensely (sane repeated); so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful (tob - pleasant, agreeable, good) than she? Please let her be yours instead - Although he had never consummated the marriage, Samson thought he was legally married to the woman of Timnah. Therefore, he took a gift and went to visit her in her father’s house. How shocked he was to learn that not only was he no longer married, but also the woman he "loved" (in quotes because Samson's idea of love seems to be more physical then unconditional) was now married to one who had in effect been best-man! Samson’s father-in-law thought that Samson hated his wife probably because "he (father-in-law) was conscious she had given him (Samson) great cause so to do." (Adam Clarke) It is interesting to recall that there are several surprised bridegrooms in the Bible - (1) Adam went to sleep a single man and woke up to learn (happily) that he was married (Ge 2:21-25). (2) Jacob woke up and discovered he was married to the wrong woman (Ge 29:21-30). (3) Boaz woke up to find his prospective wife lying at his feet on the threshing floor (Ru 3:1-13). Life is full of interesting "awakenings!" Ray Pritchard - Her father tries to make a deal saying “I was so sure you thoroughly hated her that I gave her to your friend. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.” (Jdg 15:2) Doesn’t that sound like something a father would say? “The older one is taken. Why don’t you take the younger one? She’s better looking anyway.” Now Samson is upset for two reasons. (1) he’s upset because his wife is gone and (2) he’s upset because the father has now insulted him. (How an Angry Man Gets Even) Samson is not a good man to make angry! George Bush - I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her. Heb. אמר אמרתי âmor âmarti, saying, I said that thou, &c. I said in my heart, I certainly concluded. The excuse was very frivolous, for it does not appear that Samson was long absent, and at any rate, he had no right to bestow her again in marriage without first apprising him of his intention. The act of repudiation in the East was always supposed to originate with the husband, and not with the wife. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Heb. טובח ממנח tobâh mimmenâh, better than she. Words expressive of moral qualities are, in Hebrew and other languages, frequently applied to personal endowments. Thus in English we have ‘good-looking’ for handsome. Take her. Heb. תחי לך tehi lekâ, let her be to thee. Thus, in fact, proposing what would have been to Samson an incestuous marriage, Lev. 18:18, however the Philistines regarded it. (resource) Gary Inrig sums up this first part of Judges 15 explaining that "at the doorway of her home he learns a shocking truth: he is not a married man at all. The marriage had never taken place or had been annulled (the technicalities of Philistine marriage law are unclear). His “father-in-law” would obviously have been terrified when he heard news of Samson’s Ashkelon butchery, which showed what this man was capable of. But he was forced to tell him that he had assumed that Samson had rejected his daughter and abandoned the marriage. He had tried to do right by her by giving her to another man, one of Samson’s drinking companions at the aborted marriage. But he had a proposal to meet Samson’s desires: he had a much prettier, younger daughter he would be glad to give in marriage, if Samson would accept her. Sadly, once again we see that women are treated as bargaining chips, to be used at the whim of men. Samson would have nothing to do with a substitute. If he had been angry before, he was furious now, and he determined to get revenge. Rather than focusing on the immediate problem of his stolen bride, he attacked the real enemy: not the girl or her father but the Philistines who had blackmailed the girl into betraying him. So he turned his fury upon them and hit them where it hurt—in the stomach. Hated (08130) sane means to detest, abhor, loathe, be hostile, have a feeling of open hostility and intense dislike (Ge 37:4), to be unwilling, the opposite of to love (ahab, 0157). To be an enemy with open hostility and strife toward another (Pr 29:24) Sane represents an emotion ranging from intense “hatred” to the much weaker “set against” and is used of persons and things (including ideas, words, inanimate objects). Stone says sane "connotes not merely malice and hostility, but rejection. This word figures in divorce proceedings, so that the father-in-law actually was implying that he interpreted Samson's behavior as divorce." (See context in Joshua, Judges, Ruth) Judges 15:3 Samson then said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm." Judges 15 Resources SAMSON CLAIMS HE WILL BE INNOCENT Samson then said to them, "This time I shall be blameless (ESV - "innocent") in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm - NLT = "I cannot be blamed for everything I am going to do." NET = "This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!" (Jdg 15:3NET)" NIV - "This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines" (Jdg 15:3NIV) Samson’s claim of innocence (of any charges of wrong-doing the Philistines might bring against him) may have been correct. Even the Philistines still referred to him as “the Timnite’s son-in-law” (Jdg 15:6). True, he had not immediately consummated the marriage, but was this sufficient ground for the divorce that was in effect brought about by her father? It is interesting to note that later David did not hesitate to take back his wife Michal forcibly, though Saul had given her to another man (1Sa 25:44; 2Sa 3:13-15).
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Clarke on En-hakkore - The well of the implorer; this name he gave to the spot where the water rose, in order to perpetuate the bounty of God in affording him this miraculous supply. Gary Inrig on Samson's second name, this time for the water well - Note that once again Samson misses the point. The spring is called “En Hakkore,” which means “the Spring of the Caller.” In other words, it memorializes the one who prays, Samson the “Caller,” rather than the God who answers. Once again, Samson—Mr. Me-First—directed attention to the wrong place. George Bush - God split the hollow place. That is, He cleaved the ground or the rock as to make a hollow place. Thus Ps. 74:15, ‘Thou didst cleave the fountain;’ i. e. thou didst cleave the rock so as to cause a fountain to spring up in it. Thus Is. 47:2, ‘Take the millstones and grind meal;’ i. e., grind corn into meal. The original for ‘hollow-place,’ elsewhere, signifies a mortar, and here denotes undoubtedly that a cavity was now made in the earth of the form of a mortar. his strength returned and he revived. His strength and spirits, exhausted by the excessive fatigue of the recent encounter, were effectually revived. he named it En-hakkore. That is, ‘the fountain of him that called or prayed.’ Geddes, ‘invocation-well.’ Instead of ‘he called,’ the proper rendering undoubtedly is, ‘it was called,’ i. e. this became its popular appellation, as it seems to have become henceforward a perennial spring. (resource) Revived (02421) chayah means to have life, to live, to be alive, to keep alive. To revive, refresh, restore, recover. There are only 3 uses in Judges - Jdg 8:19, Jdg 15:19, Jdg 21:14. But God in NAS - 41x - Gen. 8:1; Gen. 17:19; Gen. 20:3; Gen. 21:12; Gen. 45:8; Gen. 48:21; Gen. 50:20; Gen. 50:24; Exod. 21:13; Num. 22:22; Jdg. 15:19; 1 Sam. 23:14; 1 Chr. 28:3; Job 34:5; Ps. 49:15; Ps. 52:5; Ps. 64:7; Ps. 73:26; Ps. 75:7; Jon. 4:7; Mk. 2:7; Lk. 5:21; Lk. 12:20; Lk. 16:15; Acts 2:24; Acts 7:6; Acts 7:42; Acts 13:30; Rom. 5:8; 1 Co. 1:27; 1 Co. 3:6; 1 Co. 3:7; 1 Co. 6:13; 1 Co. 7:15; 1 Co. 12:24; 1 Co. 15:38; 2 Co. 7:6; Gal. 3:18; Eph. 2:4 (ONE OF THE BEST IN THE BIBLE!); Phil. 2:27; 1 Thess. 2:4 David