12And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
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And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)Here is, I. Samson violently pursued by the Philistine. They went up in a body, a more formidable force than they had together when Samson smote them hip and thigh; and they pitched in Judah, and spread themselves up and down the country, to find out Samson, who they heard had come this way, Jdg. 15:9. When the men of Judah, who had tamely submitted to their yoke, pleaded that they had paid their…
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