Judges 15

Judges 15:4

Foxes] The Lan was full of them. And besides his own art and industry by sundry meanes to take them he was not debarred the help of others; and above all Gods providence eoncurring therein.

Judges 15:8

Hip] Sampson hip and thigh, pell-mell, haply with his leg, and foot onely, slew the Philistines with a great slaughter. And afterwards slaying one thousand of them with Lehi, that is, the jaw-bone of an Asse, upon that occasion he called the place jaw-bone, or Lehi: And at his prayer, had a Well of water, which he therefore calls Enhakkore, springing in that place of Lehi, to revive his spiri, being near dead with thirst.

Rock Etam] We read of a Citie of that name 1 Chron. IV. 32. Called also Ethar. Josh XIX. 7. in the Tribe of Simeon; as it joynes to the Tribe of Dan and Judah; in the North-East corner of Simeon; and not very far from Zorah in the South-East corner of Dan, where Sampson was borne, ver. 2. not meaning that Dan, or that so farre distinct portion of Dan, that lay in the North-bounds of the Land of Canaan.

Judges 15:11

Of Judah] Iudah joyning to Dan, on the East-side of it.

Judges 15:20

Twenty years] These twenty years, in the just computation of the times, do fall in with the former half of Eli his fourty, 1 Sam. IV. 18.