Judges 15:19

"He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”"

Key Reflection

This verse captures Samson's intense physical and spiritual struggle. Despite his recent deliverance from the Philistines, he finds himself facing a new crisis—thirst—and questions God’s providence, reflecting both human frailty and the contrast between external victory and internal vulnerability.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

An hollow place that was in the jaw -The right translation is, “the hollow place which is in Lehi.” The word translated “hollow place,” means a “mortar”Proverbs 27:22, and is here evidently a hollow or basin among the cliffs of Lehi, which, from its shape, was called “the mortar.” A spring, on the way from Socho to Eleutheropolis, was commonly called Samson’s spring in the time of Jerome and writers in the 7th, 12th, and 14th centuries.

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