Judges Chapter 15 verse 9 Holy Bible
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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Then the Philistines went and put up their tents in Judah, all round Lehi.
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Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and made a raid on Lehi.
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Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Went up, i.e. from their own country in the Shephelah to the hill country of Judah. As Samson had avenged his wrongs on the whole Philistine people, so they now came up to Judah to take vengeance for Samson's injuries. In Lehi, or, rather, hal-Lehi, the Lehi, the place afterwards so called, as related in vers. 17 and 20 (see Judges 7:25, note). Lehi has been identified by some with Tell-el-Lekhiyeh, four miles above Beer-sheba; and by others with Beit-Likiyeh, in the Wady Suleiman, two miles below the upper Beth-heron, and so within easy distance of Timnath and other places mentioned in the history of Samson. But no certainty can at present be arrived at.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Then the Philistines went up.--They "went up" in hostile array against the hill-country of Judea to take vengeance for the dreadful injury which Samson had inflicted on them.Spread themselves in Lehi.--The use of the name before the incident from which a place is said to have received the name is found also in the case of Hormah (Numbers 14:45; Numbers 21:3). It was called in full Ramath-Lehi. (See on Judges 15:17.) The character of the narrative suggests the question whether the name may not have existed previously, and the play on words may not have been adapted by Samson to the incident. For the name of the place is Lechi (?????? ), and "a jawbone" is Lehi (???). Shen, "tooth," is the name of an isolated sharp rock (1Samuel 14:4), and therefore "jaw" would not be an unnatural name for a range of such rocks. Josephus, however, says that before Samson's exploit the place "had no name." It may be again alluded to in 2Samuel 23:11, where the words rendered "into a troop" may mean "to Lehi," as it is understood by Josephus (Antt. vii. 12, ? 4) and some MSS. of the LXX. . . .
