Judges 16:24

saw him As Samson does not appear till the next verse, Lagrange suggests that himrefers to Dagon, whose image was uncovered at this moment or carried out in procession. It is more likely that the order of the narrative has been disturbed; if we place Judges 16:24 after Judges 16:25 everything falls into natural sequence.

Our god hath delivered The song is constructed of four lines, each ending with a rhyming suffix -çnu= our. The last line runs lit. -and who multiplied our slain." Other specimens of this kind of rhyme, common in Arabic poetry but rare in the O.T., may be seen in Judges 14:18 b (-my heifer … my riddle"); Gen 4:23; 1 Samuel 18:7. It will be noticed that all these are popular, traditional verses.