Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Judges 16:1
Gaza - About 8 hours from Eleutheropolis, and one of the chief strong-holds of the Philistines.
Gaza - About 8 hours from Eleutheropolis, and one of the chief strong-holds of the Philistines.
CHAPTER XVI _Samson comes to Gaza; they lay wait for him; he rises by night,_ _and carries away the city gates_, 1-3. _Falls in love with Delilah_, 4. _The lords of the Philistines promise her mon...
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 CARRIES OFF THE GATES OF GAZA. Gaza was the last coast town on the way down to Egypt, about 30 m. from Samson's home; to-day a town of 16,000 inhabitants. Judges 16:2_ b_ does not agree with Ju...
THEN. and. GAZA. About thirty-five miles south of his native place. AN HARLOT. He could rend. lion, but not his lusts. He could break his bonds, but not his habits. He could conquer the Philistines,...
Judges 16:1-3. _Samson at Gaza_ 1 _.Gaza_ The most southerly of the Philistine cities, and far from the scene of Samson's other adventures. Long before the Philistines arrived Gaza is mentioned in Egy...
_SAMSON CARRIES AWAY THE GATES OF GAZA: FALLS IN LOVE WITH DELILAH, TO WHOM HE CONFESSES THAT HIS STRENGTH WOULD LEAVE HIM IF HIS HEAD SHOULD BE SHAVEN. HIS HAIR BEING SHAVEN OFF WHILE HE IS ASLEEP, H...
_Samson at Gaza Judges 16:1-3_ Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her. 2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid...
_THEN WENT SAMSON TO GAZA, AND SAW THERE AN HARLOT, AND WENT IN UNTO HER._ Gaza х_ `AZAATAAH_ (H5804), the strong] - now Guzzah; the capital of the largest of the five Philistine principal cities, ab...
SAMSON'S ESCAPE FROM GAZA. DELILAH'S TREACHERY. SAMSON'S DEATH 1-3. Samson and Gaza....
GAZA] 2 m. from the coast, and the last town of Palestine on the coast road to Egypt. Here Samson would be a whole day's journey from his mountain home, in his enemies' territory. 2, 3. They appear no...
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...
THEN WENT SAMSON TO GAZA. — Rather, _And Samson, &c._ The narrative is brief and detached. Gaza is near the sea, and was the chief town of the Philistines, in the very heart of their country. It is us...
וַ יֵּ֥לֶךְ שִׁמְשֹׁ֖ון עַזָּ֑תָה וַ יַּרְא ־
PLEASURE AND PERIL IN GAZA Judges 16:1 By courage and energy Samson so distinguished himself in his own tribe and on the Philistine border that he was recognised as judge. Government of any kind was...
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...
Samson went in to a harlot at Gaza, which the text does not say was of the Lord as had been the earlier marriage arrangement at Timnath. The Gazites surrounded the city and waited for daybreak to kill...
Then went Samson to (a) Gaza, and saw there an harlot, (b) and went in unto her. (a) One of the five chief cities of the Philistines. (b) That is, he lodged with her....
A harlot, or an innkeeper; for the Hebrew word signifies either. (Challoner) --- We have already noticed the ambiguity of the word zona, which occurs [in] Josue ii. 1, and is applied to Rahab. This wo...
CONTENTS The close of Samson's history forms the subject of this Chapter. We have in it a melancholy proof of our fallen nature, in the renewed breakings out of lustful passions in Samson, and the sa...
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 WENT SAMSON TO GAZA,.... One of the five principalities of the Philistines, which was ten miles from Ashkelon, as Sandys q says; who also describes r it as standing upon an hill environed with va...
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. Ver. 1. _Then went Samson to Gaza._] Not by a call from God, but of his own mind, as some think, presuming upon his strength,...
_And saw there a harlot_ Although the Hebrew word זונה, _zoneh_, here rendered _harlot_, also means a woman that keeps an inn, it seems evident, on the face of the story, that this woman really was wh...
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 went Samson to Gaza, on the Mediterranean, in Southwestern Philistia, one of the chief strongholds of his enemies, AND SAW THERE AN HARLOT, a public prostitute, AND WENT IN UNTO HER, thus becomin...
SAMSON AT GAZA...
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...
AN HARLOT: _ Heb._ a woman an harlot...
1-3 Hitherto Samson's character has appeared glorious, though uncommon. In this chapter we find him behaving in so wicked a manner, that many question whether or not he were a godly man. But the apos...
JUDGES CHAPTER 16 Samson goeth in to a harlot; is hemmed in; riseth at midnight; taketh the city gates, posts, and bars on his shoulders, and carrieth them up into a mountain, JUDGES 16:1. Is in love...
Judges 16:1 Samson H8123 went H3212 (H8799) Gaza H5804 saw H7200 (H8799) harlot H802 H2181 ...
CHAPTER 16. SAMSON'S DECLINE, DOWNFALL AND FINAL TRIUMPH. By including Judges 15:20 the writer deliberately divided his story into two halves. The first part was, as we have seen, a story mainly of tr...
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 16:1 PROSTITUTE. Hebrew has two words for prostitutes. One refers to prostitutes associated with pagan worship (Genesis 38:21;...
(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 9:1; Ezra 9:2; Genesis 10:19; Genesis 38:16; Joshua 15:47...
And saw — Going into an house of publick entertainment to refresh himself. He there saw this harlot accidentally; and by giving way to look upon her, was ensnared, Genesis 3:6....