The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
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The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
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And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
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And the men of Judah said: 'Why are ye come up against us?' And they said: 'To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.'
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain And so being our prisoner to punish him.
And so being our prisoner to punish him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why…
Jdg 15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
Ver. 10. Why are ye come up against us?] They choose rather to treat than to fight, though they had such a champion as Samson. Hosti discedenti pons aureus extruendus est, et magno precio, precibus, patientia et prudentia, alma pax redimenda. War is woeful, peace a precious commodity: yet not to be sought with the loss of truth. {Zec 8:19}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the men of Judah said,.... To the Philistines,…
And the men of Judah said,.... To the Philistines, very probably by a deputation, which they sent unto them, to know the reason of this formidable appearance:
why are ye come up against us? in this hostile manner, with such a number of forces, since they were not conscious to themselves that they had done anything to offend them; they had not attempted to cast off their yoke, they quietly submitted to their government, and had paid their whole tribute, as Josephus (f) represents them saying; they could not imagine what should be the meaning of all this:
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and they answered, to bind Samson are we come up; that is, to oblige them to bind him, and deliver him into their hands:
to do to him as he hath done to us: to put him to death, as he had slain many of their people in the last rencounter with them.
(f) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 8.)
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. To bind Samson are we come up]…
Verse 10. To bind Samson are we come up] It seems they did not wish to come to an open rupture with the Israelites, provided they would deliver up him who was the cause of their disasters.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Why are ye come up against us —…
10. Why are ye come up against us — Judah was at peace and submissive to his Philistine masters, and demanded reason for any show of further oppression.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) Why are ye come up against us?—Samson was…
(10) Why are ye come up against us?—Samson was not of the tribe of Judah, which seems to have been living in contented servitude.
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