Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Judges 16:14
Having done what Samson directed, she adds this for sureness sake; she fastened the hair thus woven with a pin.
Having done what Samson directed, she adds this for sureness sake; she fastened the hair thus woven with a pin.
AND SHE FASTENED IT WITH THE PIN ... - The meaning of the verses seems to be that the seven long plaits, in which Samson’s hair was arranged, were to be woven as a woof into the threads of a warp whic...
CHAPTER 16 DELILAH, AND SAMSON _ 1. In Gaza (Judges 16:1)_ 2. Delilah and her victory over him (Judges 16:4) 3. The captive of the Philistines (Judges 16:21) 4. The feast of Dagon and Samson's dea...
SAMSON AND DELILAH. It was quite near his own home, in the Vale of Sorek (Grape Valley), that the Philistines, a ided by the woman who had him in thrall, ultimately got the giant under their power. A...
OUT OF HIS SLEEP: i.e. the sleep mentioned in the _Homoeoteleuton_ above....
_the pin of the beam_ The Hebrew is ungrammatical and gives the impression that _the pin_has been intruded. Instead of _beam_render LOOM (_"ereg_, Job 7:6). The general sense is clear: Samson pulled u...
_Samson and Delîlah: his ruin and famous end_ 4 _.the valley of Sorek_ Now Wâdi eṣ-Ṣarâr, a broad valley narrowing as it rises towards the Judaean highlands; the railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem ascend...
IF THOU WEAVEST THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD WITH THE WEB— The LXX render the passage thus: If thou shalt weave the locks of my head, and shalt fasten them with a pin in the wall, I shall be deprived of...
_Samson and Delilah Judges 16:4-22_ 4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said...
_AND SHE FASTENED IT WITH THE PIN, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THE PHILISTINES BE UPON THEE, SAMSON. AND HE AWAKED OUT OF HIS SLEEP, AND WENT AWAY WITH THE PIN OF THE BEAM, AND WITH THE WEB._ Went away with t...
SAMSON'S ESCAPE FROM GAZA. DELILAH'S TREACHERY. SAMSON'S DEATH 1-3. Samson and Gaza....
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 16 V1 One day Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a woman that sold sex. He went to spend the night with her. V2 The people heard that Samson had come...
SHE FASTENED IT WITH THE PIN. — Unless the additions of the Vulg. and the LXX. to the last verse were in the original text, she had not been told by Samson to do this, but did it to make assurance dou...
וַ תִּתְקַע֙ בַּ † יָּתֵ֔ד וַ תֹּ֣אמֶר...
THE VALLEY OF SOREK AND OF DEATH Judges 16:4 THE strong bold man who has blindly fought his battles and sold himself to the traitress and to the enemy, "Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves," the...
PLAYING WITH THE ENEMY Judges 16:1 Three women, one after another, brought Samson down. If only a noble woman could have influenced him, as Deborah did Barak, how different his record would have bee...
Here we have the sad and awful account of Samson's relapse and final fall. He went to Gaza. It is easy to imagine how much there must have been in Gaza which should have appealed to one acting for the...
He then fell in love with a woman near his birthplace named Delilah. The lords of the Philistines offered her 1,100 shekels of silver from each of them if she could discover the secret of his strength...
I see no reason to interrupt the progress of the history through the several relations given, of this artful woman ' s persevering spirit to ruin Samson. But I rather pass on to the spiritual improvem...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
Samson sins again through his intercourse with "the daughter of a strange god"; he connects himself again with women of the Philistines, amongst whom his father's house and the tribe of Dan were place...
AND SHE FASTENED IT WITH THE PIN,.... That is, after she had interwoven the locks of his hair into the warp, she fastened the beam on which it was with the pin, that it might not roll back; or else he...
_And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web._ Ver. 14:. An...
_She fastened it with a pin_ She took the first opportunity when he was asleep of trying the experiment, and the weaving instrument being near the head of the bed where he lay, she interwove the locks...
1 Samson at Gaza escapeth, and carieth away the gates of the city. 4 Delilah corrupted by the Philistines, entiseth Samson. 6 Thrise she is deceiued. 15 At last shee ouercommeth him. 21 The Philis...
And she, acting upon his suggestion, wove the long hair of his head into her web as woof, and then FASTENED IT WITH THE PIN, the batten which is used to beat up the weft, thus clamping his hair secure...
SAMSON AND DELILAH...
4-17 Samson had been more than once brought into mischief and danger by the love of women, yet he would not take warning, but is again taken in the same snare, and this third time is fatal. Licentiou...
Judges 16:14 tightly H8628 (H8799) batten H3489 said H559 (H8799) Philistines H6430 Samson H8123 awoke H3364 ...
‘ And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson.” And he awoke from his sleep and plucked away the pin of the beam and the warp threads.' While he was asleep...
Judges 13:16 I. We must first ask what principles, regarding the way in which God works deliverance for man, were taught by Samson. (1) The first principle impressed on the minds of his contemporaries...
CONTENTS: Samson and Delilah; his fatal error and his death. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Samson, Delilah. CONCLUSION: Beware of Satan who ruins men by rocking them to sleep, flattering them into a...
Judges 16:1. _A harlot,_ at Gaza, one of the five strong cities of Philistia. The Hebrew is the same as Joshua 2., hostess, as some would read, but our version follows the other opinion. Judges 16:3....
_Then went Samson to Gaza._ PLEASURE AND PERIL IN GAZA For what reason did Samson go down to Gaza? We imagine that in default of any excitement such as he craved in the towns of his own land, he turn...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 16:13 MADE THEM TIGHT WITH THE PIN translates the same Hebrew phrase that was used when Jael drove a tent peg into Sisera’s head (Judges 4:21). Th
(Judges 16:1.) SAMSON’S FALL, CAPTIVITY AND DEATH CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 16:1. THEN.] _And_—without fixing the time. A long gap stands between the events of the two previous Chapter s and those of t...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 16:1 THEN. It should be and. There is nothing to show when the incident occurred. It may have been many years after his victory at hal-Lechi, towards the latter part of his twenty y...
Now his second encounter, going down again to the Philistines. And this time to the city of Gaza, which is on the south coast of the territory of the Philistines, south from Ashdod and Ashkelon. And t...
Ezra 9:13; Ezra 9:14; Psalms 106:43...