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OUR GOD ... - A portion of the Philistine triumphal song. Compare
Judges 5; Exodus 15....
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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...
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THE DEATH OF SAMSON. Dagon, the god of the Philistines, had been
worshipped in the Maritime Plain long before their coming. They
adopted the god of the district, just as many Israelites learned to
wor...
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_saw him_ As Samson does not appear till the next verse, Lagrange
suggests that _him_refers to Dagon, whose image was uncovered at this
moment or carried out in procession. It is more likely that the...
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_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...
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_The Death of Samson Judges 16:23-31_
23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to
offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they
said, Our god hath deliv...
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_AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW HIM, THEY PRAISED THEIR GOD: FOR THEY SAID,
OUR GOD HATH DELIVERED INTO OUR HANDS OUR ENEMY, AND THE DESTROYER OF
OUR COUNTRY, WHICH SLEW MANY OF US._
No JFB commentary on th...
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SAMSON'S ESCAPE FROM GAZA. DELILAH'S TREACHERY. SAMSON'S DEATH
1-3. Samson and Gaza....
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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...
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וַ יִּרְא֤וּ אֹתֹו֙ הָ עָ֔ם וַֽ
יְהַלְל֖וּ
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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...
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DYING WITH THE PHILISTINES
Judges 16:15
It may be that the razor has already severed your union with Christ.
If we abide not in living union with Him, we are cast out as branches
from the vine, and w...
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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...
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Later, the Philistines brought him to the temple of their god Dagon
where about 3,000 were gathered to celebrate the victory he had given
them over their enemy. Samson, whose hair had now begun to gro...
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Nothing can be more plain from the history, than that it was the
artful intrigue of a woman which had been the instrument for
delivering Samson into the hands of the Philistines; but yet a
dunghill go...
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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...
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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...
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AND WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW HIM,.... In the condition he was, blinded and
fettered, of whom and of his great exploits they had heard so much:
they praised their god; as Belshazzar did his, Daniel 5:4 in h...
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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...
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THE END OF SAMSON...
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And when the people saw him, as Samson was led forth, THEY PRAISED
THEIR GOD, in a foolish burst of idolatry; FOR THEY SAID, OUR GOD HATH
DELIVERED INTO OUR HANDS OUR ENEMY AND THE DESTROYER OF OUR CO...
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WHICH SLEW MANY OF US:
_ Heb._ and who multiplied our slain...
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22-24 Samson's afflictions were the means of bringing him to deep
repentance. By the loss of his bodily sight the eyes of his
understanding were opened; and by depriving him of bodily strength,
the L...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 16:24 people H5971 saw H7200 (H8799) praised H1984 (H8762) god
H430 said H559 (H8804) god...
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‘ And when the people saw him, they praised their god for they said,
“Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of
our country who has killed many of us.” '
The order in which t...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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(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...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 16:23
GATHERED THEM, _i.e._ themselves. TO REJOICE. The Hebrew _is for a
festivity_,_ _or _merry-making_,_ _or _feast. _There was to be a great
feast upon the sacrifices offered to...
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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...
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Daniel 5:23; Daniel 5:4; Deuteronomy 32:27; Ezekiel 20:14; Habakkuk