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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Judges 16:1

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.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    GAZA - About 8 hours from Eleutheropolis, and one of the chief strong-holds of the Philistines....

  • 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

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּ֥לֶךְ שִׁמְשֹׁ֖ון עַזָּ֑תָה וַ יַּרְא ־

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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,...

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

    _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...

  • 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

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SAMSON AT GAZA...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AN HARLOT: _ Heb._ a woman an harlot...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 16:1 Samson H8123 went H3212 (H8799) Gaza H5804 saw H7200 (H8799) harlot H802 H2181 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 16:1 PROSTITUTE. Hebrew has two words for prostitutes. One refers to prostitutes associated with pagan worship (Genesis 38:21;...

  • 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 16:1 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...

  • 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

    Ezra 9:1; Ezra 9:2; Genesis 10:19; Genesis 38:16; Joshua 15:47...

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