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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Judges 16:30

Verse Judges 16:30. So the dead which he slew] We are informed that the house was full of men and women, with about three thousand of both sexes on the top; now as the whole house was pulled down, consequently the principal part of all these were slain; and among them we find there were the lords of the Philistines. The death of these, with so many of the inferior chiefs of the people, was such a crush to the Philistine ascendancy, that they troubled Israel no more for several years, and did not even attempt to hinder Samson's relatives from taking away and burying his dead body.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ME. my soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Let me die_ lit. -let my soul die." In the O.T. the soul is not the immortal, but the mortal, element in man: it is that which breathes, the principle of life. When a person dies the soul _goes out_...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO THE DEAD WHICH HE SLEW AT HIS DEATH, &C.— And those whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain in his life. Houb. It is plain, that this event must have greatly reduced the Ph...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND SAMSON TOOK HOLD OF THE TWO MIDDLE PILLARS UPON WHICH THE HOUSE STOOD, AND ON WHICH IT WAS BORNE UP, OF THE ONE WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, AND OF THE OTHER WITH HIS LEFT._ No JFB commentary on these v...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SAMSON'S ESCAPE FROM GAZA. DELILAH'S TREACHERY. SAMSON'S DEATH 1-3. Samson and Gaza....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר שִׁמְשֹׁ֗ון תָּמֹ֣ות נַפְשִׁי֮ עִם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Samson said, (o) Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he sl...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Let me die. Literally, let my soul die. Samson did not sin on this occasion, though he was indirectly the cause of his own death. Because he was moved to what he did, by a particular inspiration of Go...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How wonderful are all the ways and works of God! By what solemn and striking providences, doth the Lord carry on his designs in the world! Samson's triumph was greater in his death, than in all the vi...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND SAMSON SAID, LET ME DIE WITH THE PHILISTINES,.... He sought their death, and was content to lose his own life to be avenged on them; in neither of which did he act a criminal part as a judge of Is...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines_ That is, I am content to die, so I can but contribute to the vindication of God's glory, and the deliverance of God's people. This is no encouragement to...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE END OF SAMSON...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Samson said, Let me, literally, my soul, DIE WITH THE PHILISTINES. AND HE BOWED HIMSELF WITH ALL HIS MIGHT, pulling the pillars down with him; AND THE HOUSE FELL UPON THE LORDS AND UPON ALL THE PE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ME: _ Heb._ my soul...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    LET ME DIE WITH THE PHILISTINES, i.e. I am contented to die, so I can but therewith contribute any thing to the vindication of God's glory, here trampled upon, and to the deliverance of God's people....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 16:30 Samson H8123 said H559 (H8799) die H4191 (H8799) H5315 Philistines H6430 pushed H5186 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Judges 16:30 a ‘And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” And he bowed himself with all his might, and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it.' It was an act of w...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 16:28 Samson demonstrated faith by calling upon God and believing that God would help him (see Hebrews 11:32). However, Samson seems to have desired God’s help more for person

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 5:2; Acts 20:24; Acts 21:13; Colossians 2:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Two pillars — Instances are not wanting of more capacious buildings than this, that have been supported only by one pillar. Pliny in the 15th chapter of the 36th Book of his Natural History, mentions...

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