Judges 15:20

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. While they had the power over the Israelites, who were not entirely delivered out of their hands by Samson, he only began to deliver…

Here is, I. The distress which Samson was in after this great performance (Jdg 15:18): He was sore athirst. It was a natural effect of the great heat he had been in, and the great pains he had taken;…

The Dtc. editor's formula, usually at the close of a judge's history, comes curiously here before the end; perhaps because the editor felt that the end was not a suitable place for a statement of this…