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Judges 15:7-9
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7 Samson said to them, “Because you did this,[a] I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting.”[b] 8 He struck them down and defeated them.[c] Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

9 The Philistines went up and invaded[d] Judah. They arrayed themselves for battle[e] in Lehi.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:7 tn The Niphal of נָקָם (naqam, “to avenge, to take vengeance”) followed by the preposition ב (bet) has the force “to get revenge against.” See 1 Sam 18:25; Jer 50:15; Ezek 25:12.
  2. Judges 15:7 tn Heb “and afterward I will stop.”
  3. Judges 15:8 tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.
  4. Judges 15:9 tn Or “camped in.”
  5. Judges 15:9 tn Or “spread out.” The Niphal of נָטָשׁ (natash) has this same sense in 2 Sam 5:18, 22.
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