Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Judges 15

^{1 a} That is, I wil vse her as my wife.

^{3 b} For through his father in laws occasion, he was moued againe to take vengeance of the Philistims.

^{4 !} Samson tieth firebrandes to the foxe tailes.

^{5 c} Or, that which reaped & gathered.

^{6 !} The Philistims burnt his father in lawe & his wife.

^{6 d} Or, the citizen of Timnath.

^{6 e} So the wicked punish not vice for loue of justice, but for feare of danger, which els might come to them.

^{9 /} Or, horsemen & fotemen.

^{9 /} Or, camped.

^{10 f} And so being our prisoner, to punish him.

^{11 g} Suche was their grosse ignorance than they judged Gods great benefite to be a plague vnto them.

^{13 h} Thus they had rather betray their brother, then vse the meanes that God had giuen for their deliuerance.

^{15 !} With the jawebone of an asse he killeth a thousand men.

^{15 i} That is, of an asse lately slaine.

^{17 /} Or, the lifting vp of the jawe.

^{18 k} Wherby appeareth, that he did these things in faith, & so with a true zeal to glorifie God & deliuer his countrey.

^{19 !} Out of a great tothe in the jawe God gaue him water.

^{19 /} Or, the fountaine of him that prayed.