8 He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
8 And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
8 With that he tore into them, ripping them limb from limb - a huge slaughter. Then he went down and stayed in a cave at Etam Rock.
8 So he attacked them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; then he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
8 So he attacked the Philistines with great fury and killed many of them. Then he went to live in a cave in the rock of Etam.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 15:8
Commentary on Judges 15:1-8
(Read Judges 15:1-8)
When there are differences between relations, let those be reckoned the wisest and best, who are most forward to forgive or forget, and most willing to stoop and yield for the sake of peace. In the means which Samson employed, we must look at the power of God supplying them, and making them successful, to mortify the pride and punish the wickedness of the Philistines. The Philistines threatened Samson's wife that they would burn her and her father's house. She, to save herself and oblige her countrymen, betrayed her husband; and the very thing that she feared, and by sin sought to avoid, came upon her! She, and her father's house, were burnt with fire, and by her countrymen, whom she thought to oblige by the wrong she did to her husband. The mischief we seek to escape by any unlawful practices, we often pull down upon our own heads.