Judges 15:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Judges 15:3

Samson Defeats the Philistines

1 After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a ^ayoung goat. And he said, “Let me go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not permit him to go in.

2 Her father said, “I really thought that you thoroughly ^ahated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please, take her instead.”

3 And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be blameless regarding the Philistines if I harm them!”

4 Then Samson went and caught three hundred foxes; and he took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.

5 When he had set the torches on fire, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

6 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they answered, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” ^aSo the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

7 Samson said to them, “Since you would do a thing like this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

8 So he attacked them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; then he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of ^aEtam.

9 Now the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and deployed themselves ^aagainst Lehi.

10 And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” So they answered, “We have come up to¹ arrest Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”

Verse Comparison: Judges 15:3

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American Standard Version
And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.

Amplified® Bible
And Samson said of them, This time shall I be blameless as regards the Philistines, though I do them evil.

Contemporary English Version
"This time," Samson answered, "I have a good reason for really hurting some Philistines."

Darby English Version
And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines, when I do them mischief."

Good News Bible
Samson said, "This time I'm not going to be responsible for what I do to the Philistines!"

King James Version
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

New American Standard Bible
Samson then said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm."

New International Version
Samson said to them, "This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them."

New King James Version
And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be blameless regarding the Philistines if I harm them!”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Samson then said to them, "This time I shall remain blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm."

Revised Standard Version
And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines, when I do them mischief."

Young's Literal Translation
And Samson saith of them, `I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.'

New English Translation
Samson said to them,¹ “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!”²

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