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Verse Judges 16:13. _THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD_] Probably Samson had
his long hair plaited into _seven divisions_, and as his vow of a
Nazarite obliged him to _wear his hair_, so, _seven_ being a nu...
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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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_If thou weavest the seven locks … web_ PLAITS … WARP. Weaving was
the work of women as well as of men; see the illustration from the
Egyptian tombs at Beni Hasan dating from the Middle Kingdom,
Benzi...
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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...
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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 DELILAH SAID UNTO SAMSON, HITHERTO THOU HAST MOCKED ME, AND TOLD
ME LIES: TELL ME WHEREWITH THOU MIGHTEST BE BOUND. AND HE SAID UNTO
HER, IF THOU WEAVEST THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD WITH THE WEB._...
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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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IF THOU WEAVEST THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD WITH THE WEB. — The
illustrious and “sunny locks of the Nazarite” did not, as Milton
imagines, “lie waving and curling about his god-like shoulders,”
but wer...
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וַ תֹּ֨אמֶר דְּלִילָ֜ה אֶל
־שִׁמְשֹׁ֗ון עַד ־
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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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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...
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And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told
me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. (g) And he said
unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the we...
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Lace, ( licio;) "the woof about the beam," &c. Hebrew, "the web, (14)
and she fastened it, " &c. The original text is here imperfect.
(Haydock) --- The Septuagint have preserved eighteen words, which...
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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...
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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 DELILAH SAID UNTO SAMSON,.... At another time, when she thought it
most proper to upbraid him with his deception of her:
HITHERTO THOU HAST MOCKED ME, AND TOLD ME LIES; both the times that
she ha...
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And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told
me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto
her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web....
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_If thou weavest the seven locks of my head_ If my hair, which is all
divided into seven locks, be fastened about a weaver's beam, or
interwoven with weavers' threads, then I shall be weak as another...
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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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And Delilah said unto Samson, her avarice and vexation goading her on,
HITHERTO THOU HAST MOCKED ME AND TOLD ME LIES; TELL ME WHEREWITH THOU
MIGHTEST BE BOUND. She is past cajolery and now demands to...
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SAMSON AND DELILAH...
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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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Or, _thread_ which is woven about a weaver's loom; or, WITH A WEAVER'S
BEAM. If my hair, which is all divided into seven locks, be fastened
about a weaver's beam, or interwoven with weavers threads; u...
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Judges 16:13 Delilah H1807 said H559 (H8799) Samson H8123 now H2008
mocked H2048 (H8765) told H1696 ...
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Judges 16:13 a
‘And Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have made fun of me
and told me untruths. Tell me in what way you might be bound.” '
These words were no doubt hidden in much love play and...
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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 16:13 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
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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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Judges 16:13...
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Web — Or, thread which is woven about a weaver's loom: or, with a
weaver's beam. If my hair, which is all divided into seven locks, be
fastened about a weaver's beam; or interwoven with weaver's threa...