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Verse Judges 16:4. _HE LOVED A WOMAN IN THE VALLEY OF SOREK_] Some
think Samson took this woman for his _wife_; others, that he had her
as a _concubine_. It appears she was a Philistine; and however...
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A village to the north of Eleutheropolis, called Caphar-Sotek, was
still existing in the time of Eusebius, near Zorah....
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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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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...
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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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IN THE VALLEY OF SOREK, WHOSE NAME WAS DELILAH— The valley of Sorek,
through which passed the river of the same name, and where, in the
times of Eusebius and St. Jerome, stood the village of _Cephar-s...
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_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...
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTERWARD, THAT HE LOVED A WOMAN IN THE VALLEY OF
SOREK, WHOSE NAME WAS DELILAH._
He loved a woman in the valley of Sorek. The situation of this place
is not known, although Jero...
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A WOMAN] For the third time Samson's reckless daring in love brings
him into danger. SOREK] a long and fertile 'wady' or glen, running W.
from near J erusalem to the plain: cp. Genesis 49:11. Zorah an...
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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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HE LOVED A WOMAN. — Delilah was not, as Milton represents, his wife.
Josephus (_Antt. v._ 8, § 11) says that she was one who played the
harlot among the Philistines, and the fathers all speak of her i...
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וַֽ יְהִי֙ אַחֲרֵי ־כֵ֔ן וַ יֶּאֱהַ֥ב
אִשָּׁ֖
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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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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...
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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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After this. The lamentable fall of Samson took place in the last year
of his administration, when Heli, of the house of Thamar, succeeded
Achitob I. in the high priesthood. (In the year before Christ...
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And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of
Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Again we behold the sad breakings out of our fallen state. How justly
doth the Psalmist (and every...
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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 IT CAME TO PASS AFTERWARDS, THAT HE LOVED A WOMAN IN THE VALLEY OF
SOREK,.... Which, according to Adrichomius y was but half a mile from
the brook Eshcol, from whence the spies brought a bunch of...
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And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of
Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.
Ver. 4. _And it came to pass afterward._] Not long afterwards, but
before he had soundly repente...
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_He loved a woman in the valley of Sorek_ Through which passed the
river of the same name. This place, famous for its vines, was about a
mile and a half from Eshcol, whence the spies brought their bun...
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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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SAMSON AND DELILAH...
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And it came to pass afterward, some time after this exploit, THAT HE
LOVED A WOMAN IN THE VALLEY OF SOREK WHOSE NAME WAS DELILAH. This was
not very far from his home place, and he entered into an unla...
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MORE BAD RELATIONSHIPS
(vv. 1-22).
Samson had still not learned his lesson as regards Philistine women,
and in Gaza he foolishly involved himself with a prostitute. When the
Gazites knew of his being...
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OF SOREK:
Or, by the brook...
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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...
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HE LOVED A WOMAN; either, first, With conjugal love, so as to marry
her, as divers both Jews and Christians have thought. Or, secondly,
With lustful love, as a harlot; which though not certain, becaus...
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Judges 16:4 Afterward H310 loved H157 (H8799) woman H802 Valley H5158
Sorek H7796 name H8034 Delilah H1807...
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‘ And it was so afterwards that he loved a woman in the valley of
Sorek, whose name was Delilah.'
The Valley of Sorek lay between Jerusalem and the sea, commencing
twelve miles (twenty kilometres) fro...
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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—NOTE ON JUDGES 16:4 DELILAH was the third Philistine woman
with whom Samson had a relationship (see Judges 14:1;...
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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 16:1
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...
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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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1 Corinthians 10:6; 1 Kings 11:1; Nehemiah 13:26; Proverbs 22:14;...
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Loved — Probably as an harlot: because the dreadful punishment now
inflicted upon Samson for this sin, whom God spared for the first
offence, is an intimation, that this sin was not inferior to the
fo...