translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JDG

label: NET study note

text: Touching the carcass of a dead animal undoubtedly violated Samson’s Nazirite status. See Num 6:6 .


text: Plowed with my heifer . This statement emphasizes that the Philistines had utilized a source of information which should have been off-limits to them. Heifers were used in plowing ( Hos 10:11 ), but one typically used one’s own farm animals, not another man’s.