Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 15:7
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Whereby it appears, that it was not his private injuries, but the public, which he did revenge.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
7. Samson said . . ., Though ye havedone this, yet will I be avenged of youBy that act thehusbandmen had been the instruments in avenging his private andpersonal wrongs. But as a judge, divinely appointed to deliverIsrael, his work of retribution was not yet accomplished.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And Samson said unto them,…. After they had burnt his wife and her father in their dwelling house, by which they thought to appease him, being afraid of him:
though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you; not for burning his wife and father-in-law; his sense is, that though they had done this, in order to ingratiate themselves with him, yet he should not stop on this account, but be avenged on them, not for private injuries done to him, or any that had been in connection with him, but for public injuries done to Israel, and their oppression of them:
and after that I will cease; when he had taken full vengeance on them, and not before.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Samson therefore declared to them, “ If ye do such things, truly ( ) when I have avenged myself upon you, then will I cease, ” i.e., I will not cease till I have taken vengeance upon you.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(7) Though ye have done this.The rendering of these words is involved in the same obscurity as other details of the narrative. They may mean, If ye act thus, then will I be avenged on you before I have done; and perhaps the verse implies, as long as you avenge yourselves, I mean to retaliate.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
‘ And Samson said to them, “If you behave like this surely I will be avenged on you, and after that I will stop.”
The incident had all the appearance of a bitter family feud rather than a political rebellion. Samson’s strategy of connecting himself with the Philistines had given him the opportunities he sought without bringing blame on his brothers. And now he had the perfect grounds for killing more Philistines, for he could declare that it was blood revenge for what they had done to his ‘family’. He could stress that their behaviour had brought it on themselves.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Jdg 15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Ver. 7. Though ye have done this, yet, &c. ] Here he protesteth that he was no way satisfied with, what they had done to his wife and her father; because not in a way of justice, but out of rage and fury for the loss of their grain. He would further have his pennyworths of them as a public person set up by God for the purpose to take vengeance upon an ungodly nation. “And after that,” saith he, “I will cease,” viz., till next time: and till I see good to begin again. Tremelius rendereth it, Siccine facturi estis? Is this your manner of dealing? q.d., You would surely serve me in like sort if I were in your hands: but I will be on the bones of you shortly. They are an angry man’s words, and therefore short and cutted.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
this = like [this]: i.e. on this wise.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Though: Jdg 14:4, Jdg 14:19, Rom 12:19
Reciprocal: Est 7:10 – Then was the king’s Zec 6:8 – quieted