Judges 15:7-8

15:7 Samson said to them, “Because you did this, ¹  I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting.” ²  15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ³  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

¹ tn The Niphal of נָקָם (naqam, “to avenge, to take vengeance”) followed by the preposition ב (bet) has the force “to get revenge against.” See 1 Sam 18:25; Jer 50:15; Ezek 25:12.

² tn Heb “and afterward I will stop.”

³ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.