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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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_she bound him_ When he was asleep, as we may infer from Judges
16:14_; Judges 16:19_. What Samson proposed in jest, Delîlah carried
out in earnest....
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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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_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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_THEN THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES BROUGHT UP TO HER SEVEN GREEN WITHS
WHICH HAD NOT BEEN DRIED, AND SHE BOUND HIM WITH THEM._
She bound him with them - probably in a sportive manner, to try
whether...
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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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וַ יַּעֲלוּ ־לָ֞הּ סַרְנֵ֣י
פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים שִׁבְעָ֛ה...
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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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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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THEN THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES BROUGHT UP TO HER,.... To the
chamber where she was with Samson, she having acquainted them with
what he had told her:
SEVEN GREEN WITHS, WHICH HAD NOT BEEN DRIED; j...
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Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs
which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Ver. 8. _And she bound him with them._] So heathen histories tell us
of He...
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_Wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee_ This seems rather
to express the sum of what Delilah aimed at than her very words. For
it is scarcely credible that she put this question so openly t...
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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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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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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 16:8 lords H5633 Philistines H6430 up H5927 (H8686) seven H7651
fresh H3892 bowstrings H3499 dried H2717
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‘ Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh
(green) withes, which had not been dried, and she bound him with
them.'
When he next came to see her he was probably amused to see tha...
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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 16:7 In the first test of Samson’s strength,
the SEVEN FRESH BOWSTRINGS, made of animal gut, were weaker than dried
and aged strings....
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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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Ecclesiastes 7:26...