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Verse Judges 16:19. _SHE BEGAN TO AFFECT HIM_] She had probably tied
his hands slyly, while he was asleep, and after having cut off his
hair, she began to insult him before she called the Philistines...
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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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_she made him sleep_ Cf. Judges 16:14 LXX. cod. A. For _a man_the
original has THE MAN, i.e. who was waiting in readiness. For _and
shaved_(subj. Delîlah) the context seems to require the reading _and...
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SHE BEGAN TO AFFLICT HIM— i.e. (in the sense wherein this word is
frequently used,) to _humble_ and _bring him low;_ for as soon as the
razor touched his head, his strength began to be diminished....
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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 SHE MADE HIM SLEEP UPON HER KNEES; AND SHE CALLED FOR A MAN, AND
SHE CAUSED HIM TO SHAVE OFF THE SEVEN LOCKS OF HIS HEAD; AND SHE BEGAN
TO AFFLICT HIM, AND HIS STRENGTH WENT FROM HIM._
Called fo...
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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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MADE HIM SLEEP UPON HER KNEES. — As his locks could hardly be shaved
off without awaking him from any ordinary sleep, the expression looks
as if she had administered some “drowsy syrup,” like mandrago...
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וַ תְּיַשְּׁנֵ֨הוּ֙ עַל
־בִּרְכֶּ֔יהָ וַ תִּקְרָ֣א...
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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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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...
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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 she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and
she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began
to afflict him, and his strength went (k) from him.
(k) Not...
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Knees, by some soporiferous draught, as on the other occasions.
(Menochius) --- Barber. He only produced the razor, or rather a pair
of scissors, such as were used to shear sheep. Barbers were unknown...
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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 SHE MADE HIM SLEEP UPON HER KNEES,.... Giving him, as some think,
a sleepy potion; or however encouraged him to take a nap upon her
knees, and by her fondness lulled him to sleep:
AND SHE CALLED...
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And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and
she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began
to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Ver. 19. _A...
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_She made him sleep_ By some sleepy potion; _upon her knees_ Resting
his head upon her knees. _She began to afflict him_ To humble and
bring him low, in which sense the original word is often used. Fo...
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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 she made him, Samson, SLEEP UPON HER KNEES; AND SHE CALLED FOR A
MAN, one of those concealed in ambush in her apartment, AND SHE CAUSED
HIM TO SHAVE OFF THE SEVEN LOCKS OF HIS HEAD; AND SHE BEGAN...
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SAMSON AND DELILAH...
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18-21 See the fatal effects of false security. Satan ruins men by
flattering them into a good opinion of their own safety, and so
bringing them to mind nothing, and fear nothing; and then he robs the...
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SHE MADE HIM SLEEP, by some sleepy potion, which it is like she gave
him upon other pretences, agreeable enough to his present and vitiated
inclination. UPON HER KNEES; resting his head upon her knees...
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Judges 16:19 sleep H3462 (H8762) knees H1290 called H7121 (H8799) man
H376 off H1548 (H8762) seven...
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‘ And she made him sleep on her knees, and she called for a man and
she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head, and she began
to humble him, and his strength went from him.'
Here was the...
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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 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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Sleep — By some sleepy potion. Knees — Resting his head upon her
knees. To weaken or hurt, tho' he felt it not....