Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 16:31
Buried — While the Philistines were under such grief, and consternation, that they had neither heart nor leisure to hinder them.
Buried — While the Philistines were under such grief, and consternation, that they had neither heart nor leisure to hinder them.
Verse Judges 16:31. _HE JUDGED ISRAEL TWENTY YEARS._] It is difficult to ascertain the _time_ of Samson's magistracy, and the _extent_ of country over which he presided. His jurisdiction seems to hav...
“All the house of his father,” in connection with “his brethren,” must mean the whole tribe of Dan, aiding his nearer relations. The Danites, taking advantage of the consternation of the Philistines,...
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...
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...
HIS BRETHREN. Probably his parents were now dead. UP: i.e. from Gaza, Judges 16:21. BETWEEN ZORAH AND ESHTAOL. Where the Spirit had first come upon him, Judges 13:25. JUDGED ISRAEL. But he only _beg...
_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...
_came down_ Gaza lay near the sea; Samson's home was on the slopes of the Central Range. The Philistines" quarrel was not with the kinsmen; they were not refused the right of sepulture. Contrast 1 Sam...
_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...
_THEN HIS BRETHREN AND ALL THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER CAME DOWN, AND TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM UP, AND BURIED HIM BETWEEN ZORAH AND ESHTAOL IN THE BURYING PLACE OF MANOAH HIS FATHER. AND HE JUDGED ISRAEL...
The Philistines had no wish, and perhaps no spirit, to interfere with Samson's burial in his own country. Milton has brought out the tragic elements of this wild story at the. end of 'Samson Agonistes...
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...
HIS BRETHREN AND ALL THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER. — Probably Manoah and his wife were dead. The religious terror caused by the catastrophe may well have prevented the people of Gaza from offering any oppo...
וַ יֵּרְד֨וּ אֶחָ֜יו וְ כָל ־בֵּ֣ית אָבִיהוּ֮
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...
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...
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...
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...
Twenty. "Why then, says the Thalmud of Jerusalem, does the Scripture allow him 40? That thou mightest understand the Philistines were kept in awe, by the fear of him, for 20 years after his decease....
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel t...
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...
THEN HIS BRETHREN, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER, CAME DOWN,.... To Gaza, having heard of what had befallen him there. This must be understood of his kindred and near relations, those of his father'...
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought [him] up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel...
_His brethren, &c., came down, and took, and buried him_ While the Philistines were so reduced by the great destruction he had wrought among them, and so oppressed with grief and consternation, that t...
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...
Then his brethren, the members of his own people, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF HIS FATHER CAME DOWN, AND TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM UP, in a funeral procession which gave him more honor in death than he had go...
THE END OF SAMSON...
25-31 Nothing fills up the sins of any person or people faster than mocking and misusing the servants of God, even thought it is by their own folly that they are brought low. God put it into Samson's...
HIS BRETHREN; either, first, Largely so called, his kinsmen. Or, secondly, Strictly so called; Samson's parents having had other children after him; as it was usual with God when he gave an extraordin...
Judges 16:31 brothers H251 fathers H1 household H1004 down H3381 (H8799) took H5375 (H8799) up H5927 ...
‘ Then his brothers, and all the house of his father, came down, and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying place of Manoah his father. And he judged Isra...
JUDGED The character and work of Samson are alike enigmatical. Announced by an angel (Judges 13:1). He was a Nazarite; (Numbers 6:1); (Judges 13:5) who constantly defiled his Nazarite separation thro...
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 16:31 The main body of the book of Judges 1:1 now ends. Despite the generally ungodly character of the judges themselves, God had worked to deliver Israel and to protect his own...
(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 16:23 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...
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...
John 19:39; Joshua 19:41; Judges 13:2; Judges 13:25; Judges 15:20...