Comentario sobre Jueces 15:26

At this time I am innocent. I shall be justified in inflicting injury upon them.

Twisted. The tails, each into the next. וַיִפֶן implies that he himself turned, וַיֶפֶן that he turned, or twisted, others. This usage applies with every word whose verbal root ends with ה.¹Such as גָלָה ,רָבָה ,פָנָה. "The people increased;"²Shemos, 1:20. "He increased, in the people of Yehudah, lamentation…."³Eichah, 2:5. Cf. Rashi there. "Yehudah went into exile from his homeland"⁴Melachim 2, 25:21.—went into exile. "The king [of Ashur] exiled Yisroel to Ashur" ⁵Melachim 2, 17:6.—exiled others.

The son-in-law of the Timnite. The son-in-law of the Pelishtite from Timnah.

Is this the way you behave. Perhaps you are accustomed to this—shifting wives from one to another.

Cavalry and infantry [lit. calf and thigh]. "Horsemen and foot soldiers."⁶This is Targum Yonasan’s translation. “Calf” refers to the horseman, supported by the calf, as Rashi explains, and “thigh” refers to the footsoldier, whose weight is supported by the thigh. The horseman is not supported by the thigh, but by the calf of the foot inserted into the metal stirrup hanging from the saddle.

On the promontory of a crevice of the Eitam cliff. Similarly, "The promontories of the cliffs,"⁷Yeshaya, 2:21 "[He] shall remove its branches."⁸Ibid, 10:33.

They fanned out. They dispersed.

At Lechi. The name of a place⁹Not literally “cheek”.

Why have you ascended against us. Are we not enslaved by you?

To tie down Shimshon. In order that you tie him down and deliver him to us.

No! We shall merely tie you down. We shall not execute you, but merely tie you down.

The spirit of Adonoy. A spirit of power, emanating from Adonoy.¹⁰This is Targum Yonasan’s translation.

His bonds which tied him down.

Moist. Wet. I saw a medical lexicon which refers to pus oozing from a wound as טְרִיָה.

I amassed mounds with the jawbone of a donkey, amassing numerous mounds. "With the jawbone of a donkey I hurled them into mounds."¹¹This is Targum Yonasan’s translation.

The socket [lit. "the mortar"]. The socket where the tooth is set is shaped like a mortar.

Ein Hakorei. "The wellspring which materialized through the cry of the one who called out to Adonoy."