Judges 15:8 meaning and explanation

And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

Judges 15:8, Berean Standard Bible

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Samson has just learned that the Philistines burned his wife and her father, and he answers with a crushing blow against them. The narrator reports the slaughter without praising it, and Samson then withdraws to a cave at the rock of Etam, likely in Judah's hill country.

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