Teks -- Judges 15:11 (NET)

15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jdg 15:11 - Unto us

Thou hast by these actions punished not them only, but us, who are sure to smart for it.

JFB: Jdg 15:9-17 - Then the Philistines went up

To the high land of Judah.

JFB: Jdg 15:9-17 - and spread themselves in Lehi

Now El-Lekieh, abounding with limestone cliffs; the sides of which are perforated with caves. The object of the Philistines in this expedition was to apprehend Samson, in revenge for the great slaughter he had committed on their people. With a view of freeing his own countrymen from all danger from the infuriated Philistines, he allowed himself to be bound and surrendered a fettered prisoner into their power. Exulting with joy at the near prospect of riddance from so formidable an enemy, they went to meet him. But he exerted his superhuman strength, and finding a new (or moist) jawbone of an ass, he laid hold of it, and with no other weapon, slew a thousand men at a place which he called Ramath-lehi--that is, "the hill of the jawbone."

Clarke: Jdg 15:11 - Three thousand men of Judah went

Three thousand men of Judah went - It appears evidently from this that Samson was strongly posted, and they thought that no less than three thousand men were necessary to reduce him.

TSK: Jdg 15:11 - went // the rock Etam // Philistines

went : Heb. went down

the rock Etam : Probably near the town Etam, mentioned in 1Ch 4:32.

Philistines : Jdg 13:1, Jdg 14:4; Deu 28:13, Deu 28:47, Deu 28:48; Psa 106:41

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jdg 15:11 - What is this that thou hast done unto us?

What is this that thou hast done unto us? thou hast by these actions punished not them, as thou intendest; but us, who being under their dominion, are sure to smart for it.

Gill: Jdg 15:11 - Then three thousand of Judah went up to the top of the rock of Etam // and said to Samson, knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us // what is this that thou hast done unto us // and he said unto them, as they did unto me, so have I done to them

Then three thousand of Judah went up to the top of the rock of Etam,.... Or "went down" ^g; that is, into the cave of the rock of Etam, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions; and so it is taken by David de Pomis ^h for a cave dug in the rock: this was a large number that went to take one man; the reason is, they knew his great strength:

and said to Samson, knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? and therefore it must be a very unwise thing to disoblige and provoke them, when it lay in their power to oppress them yet more and more, to increase their tribute, and make their burdens heavier, and even take away their lives:

what is this that thou hast done unto us? they ask not what he had done to them, but unto us; though they mean that, but express themselves thus, because what he had done to the Philistines was the occasion of their coming up against them, and so eventually it was doing them ill:

and he said unto them, as they did unto me, so have I done to them; they had done him ill, and therefore he did ill to them; they had burnt his wife and her father with fire, and he had slain many of them; at least this was what he thought fit to say in his own vindication; otherwise what he did was not in a way of private revenge, but on account of the injury done to the people of Israel, he taking what was done to them as done to himself, the chief magistrate and judge of Israel.