8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here is, I. Samson’s return to his wife, whom he had left in displeasure; not hearing perhaps that she was given to another, when time had a little cooled his resentments, he came back to her, visited her with a kid , Jdg. 15:1. The value of the present was inconsiderable, but it was intended as a token of reconciliation, and perhaps was then so used, when those that had been at variance were brou…
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