Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.

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    Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.

  • KJV King James Version

    And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.

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Cross-references (3)

Passages linked to Judges 15:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Lamentations 5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
  • Psalms 63:10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
  • Song of Solomon 2:15 Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred…

Jdg 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

Ver. 4. And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes.] Whereof that country was full, {Son 2:15 Psa 63:10} and he might herein use the help of his friends. The Philistines vulpinando had got away his wife from him, as Herod that fox had done his brother Philip’s: by foxes therefore they are fitly plagued.

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And put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.] Putting something else also between them, saith Lyra, which might not burn asunder; and which might keep the fire from burning the foxes, through the space betwixt tail and tail; heretics and schismatics are like these foxes with fire at their tails: for striving to run farthest one from another, they set the Church in a combustion. Eutyches fell into the other extreme of Nestorius: so did Osiander of Stancarus, and Illyricus of Strigelius, to the great disturbance of the Church. {a}

{a} Evag., lib. i. cap. 9. Schluss., de Stanc., p. 87. Schluss., de Sect. Manich.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain There were great numbers of foxes in Canaan, as…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes,.... Nor…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Foxes - Of which there were great numbers in…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. Went and caught three hundred foxes] There…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 15:4. Samson went and caught three hundred foxes…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Foxes - Rather, “jackals,” which are still very common…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Foxes. Being judge of the people, he might have…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain went and caught three hundred foxes--rather, "jackals"; an animal…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Caught three hundred foxes — We are not…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. three hundred foxes] The fox is a solitary…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) Caught three hundred foxes.—Rather, three hundred jackals. The…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Foxes. The word here rendered fox (shual, in Persian…

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