Judges 15:3 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

And Samson said about them, 'Now I will be more innocent than the Philistines, even though I'm about to harm them.'

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Samson is justifying his upcoming revenge against the Philistines by saying he'll still be more in the right than they are, even after he retaliates.

📚 Historical Context

In the book of Judges, Samson was a Nazirite judge raised by God to challenge the Philistine oppressors who ruled over Israel during a time of cycles of rebellion and deliverance. Prior to this verse, Samson had married a Philistine woman, but her father gave her to another man, leading Samson to retaliate by tying foxes with torches and burning the Philistines' crops as an act of vengeance. In Judges 15:3, Samson justifies his upcoming actions by claiming he will be blameless in harming the Philistines, reflecting the ongoing tension and conflict between the Israelites and their enemies.

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Judges 15:6

Then the Philistines asked, 'Who did this?' And they were told, 'Samson, the son-in-law of the man from Timnah, because the man took Samson's wife and gave her to his best man.' So the Philistines went and burned her and her father to death.

Judges 15:11

Then three thousand men from Judah went up to the rocky cliff at Etam and said to Samson, 'Don't you know that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?' And he replied, 'I only did to them what they did to me.'

Judges 14:1

Samson went down to the town of Timnah, where he saw a Philistine woman.

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