He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
      IV. The memorial of this, in the name Samson gave to this upstart fountain, En-hakkore, the well of him that cried, thereby keeping in remembrance both his own distress, which occasioned him to cry, and God's favour to him, in answer to his cry. Many a spring of comfort God opens to his people, which may fitly be called by this name; it is the well of him that cried. Samson had given a name to the place which denoted him great and triumphant--Ramath-lehi, the lifting up of the jaw-bone; but here he gives it another name, which denotes him needy and dependent.