Judices 15:12

Nova Vulgata

"Ligare, inquiunt, te venimus et tradere in manus Philisthinorum". "Iurate, respondit, mihi quod non me occidatis".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Hi sunt termini filiorum Juda per circuitum in cognationibus suis.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Ligare, inquiunt, te venimus, et tradere in manus Philisthinorum. Quibus Samson: Jurate, ait, et spondete mihi quod non occidatis me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to bind thee: Matthew 27:2, Acts 7:25

fall: Judges 8:21, 1 Kings 2:25, 1 Kings 2:34

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:43 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they said unto him, we are come down to bind thee,.... That is, they were come down into the cave where he was; otherwise more properly they were come up to the top of the rock:

that we may deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines; they own what was their intention in binding him, and what put them upon it was not ill will to him, but fear of the Philistines:

and Samson said unto them, swear unto me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves; which shows he did not fear them, though they were 3000; and that if they attempted to take away his life, he should defend himself, but he chose not to shed the blood of any of them; and rather than they should come into any distress through the Philistines, consented to be bound by them, and delivered into their hands; which he was a type of Christ, who was betrayed by the Jews, and delivered by them into the hands of the Romans; and though he could have delivered himself by his great strength, would not, but suffered himself to be taken and bound, and given into the hands of his enemies, that his own people might go free; see John 18:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 15:12. That ye will not fall upon me yourselves. — He could not bear the thought of contending with and slaying his own countrymen; for there is no doubt that he could have as easily rescued himself from their hands as from those of the Philistines.