Eve of Pentacost
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Darby's French Translation
Juges 15:3
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Mais Samson leur dit: Cette fois je serai innocent ŕ l'égard des Philistins, quand je leur ferai du mal.
Samson leur dit: Cette fois je ne serai pas coupable envers les Philistins, si je leur fais du mal.
Et Samson leur dit : A présent je serai innocent ŕ l'égard des Philistins quand je leur ferai du mal.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Now shall: etc. or, Now shall I be blameless from the Philistines
though: etc. Judges 14:15
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:13 - deceitfully
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Samson said concerning them,.... His wife's father, and other relations, and the citizens of Timnath; this, which is what follows, he said either within himself respecting them, or he said it to them openly and publicly before them all:
now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure; signifying, that if he did them an ill thing, or what might be reckoned an injury to their persons or properties, and which would be disagreeable and displeasing to them, they could not justly blame him for it, since they had given him such a provocation as to dispose of his wife to another man; though Samson did not mean to act, nor did he act in the following instances as a private person taking private revenge, but as a public person, and judge of Israel; and took occasion, from the private injuries done him, to avenge the public ones of the children of Israel upon the Philistines; and they might thank themselves for giving the opportunity, which they could not justly condemn him for taking.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See the margin. Before, when the Philistines injured him he was in covenant with the Timnathites through his marriage and by the rites of hospitality, for which reason he went off to Ashkelon to take his revenge Judges 14:19. But now the Philistines themselves had broken this bond, and so he was free to take his revenge on the spot.
