Judices 15:11

Nova Vulgata

Descenderunt ergo tria milia virorum de Iuda ad specum petrae Etam dixeruntque ad Samson: "Nescis quod Philisthim imperent nobis? Quare hoc nobis facere voluisti?". Quibus ille ait: "Sicut fecerunt mihi, feci eis".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et pervenit contra aquilonem partis Accaron ex latere : inclinaturque Sechrona, et transit montem Baala : pervenitque in Jebneel, et magni maris contra occidentem fine concluditur.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Descenderunt ergo tria millia virorum de Juda ad specum silicis Etam, dixeruntque ad Samson: Nescis quod Philisthiim imperent nobis? quare hoc facere voluisti? Quibus ille ait: Sicut fecerunt mihi, sic feci eis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

went: Heb. went down

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

Philistines: Judges 13:1, Judges 14:4, Deuteronomy 28:13, Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 28:48, Psalms 106:41

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:43 - General 1 Kings 20:4 - I am thine Proverbs 24:29 - I will do Revelation 8:10 - the fountains

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

g וירדו, "et descenderunt", Pagninus, Montanus; "descenderunt ergo", V. L. Tigurine version. h Tzemach David, fol. 112. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The dispirited men of Judah were prepared to give up their champion, in order to conciliate their masters. This shows how hard was the task of the Judge, whose office it was to restore his countrymen to freedom and independence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 15:11. 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.