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Judges 16:13-14

JUDGES—NOTE ON Judges 16:13 Made them tight with the pin translates the same Hebrew phrase that was used when Jael drove a tent peg into Sisera’s head (Judges 4:21). The exact situation here is unclear, but Samson obviously had no trouble escaping once more.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 16:13. _THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD_] Probably Samson had his long hair plaited into _seven divisions_, and as his vow of a Nazarite obliged him to _wear his hair_, so, _seven_ being a nu...

  • 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 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TELL ME. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Septuagint add "I Pray thee". WITH THE WEB. Note the _Homoeoteleuton._ In the primitive text these words were probably followed by "and faste...

  • 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

    _If thou weavest the seven locks … web_ PLAITS … WARP. Weaving was the work of women as well as of men; see the illustration from the Egyptian tombs at Beni Hasan dating from the Middle Kingdom, Benzi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IF THOU WEAVEST THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD WITH THE WEB— The LXX render the passage thus: If thou shalt weave the locks of my head, and shalt fasten them with a pin in the wall, I shall be deprived of...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND DELILAH SAID UNTO SAMSON, HITHERTO THOU HAST MOCKED ME, AND TOLD ME LIES: TELL ME WHEREWITH THOU MIGHTEST BE BOUND. AND HE SAID UNTO HER, IF THOU WEAVEST THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD WITH THE WEB._...

  • 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

    IF THOU WEAVEST THE SEVEN LOCKS OF MY HEAD WITH THE WEB. — The illustrious and “sunny locks of the Nazarite” did not, as Milton imagines, “lie waving and curling about his god-like shoulders,” but wer...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תֹּ֨אמֶר דְּלִילָ֜ה אֶל ־שִׁמְשֹׁ֗ון עַד ־

  • 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

    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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. (g) And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the we...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Lace, ( licio;) "the woof about the beam," &c. Hebrew, "the web, (14) and she fastened it, " &c. The original text is here imperfect. (Haydock) --- The Septuagint have preserved eighteen words, which...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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 DELILAH SAID UNTO SAMSON,.... At another time, when she thought it most proper to upbraid him with his deception of her: HITHERTO THOU HAST MOCKED ME, AND TOLD ME LIES; both the times that she ha...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web....

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

    _If thou weavest the seven locks of my head_ If my hair, which is all divided into seven locks, be fastened about a weaver's beam, or interwoven with weavers' threads, then I shall be weak as another...

  • 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

    And Delilah said unto Samson, her avarice and vexation goading her on, HITHERTO THOU HAST MOCKED ME AND TOLD ME LIES; TELL ME WHEREWITH THOU MIGHTEST BE BOUND. She is past cajolery and now demands to...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SAMSON AND DELILAH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Or, _thread_ which is woven about a weaver's loom; or, WITH A WEAVER'S BEAM. If my hair, which is all divided into seven locks, be fastened about a weaver's beam, or interwoven with weavers threads; u...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 16:13 Delilah H1807 said H559 (H8799) Samson H8123 now H2008 mocked H2048 (H8765) told H1696 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Judges 16:13 a ‘And Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have made fun of me and told me untruths. Tell me in what way you might be bound.” ' These words were no doubt hidden in much love play and...

  • 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 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

    Judges 16:13...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Web — Or, thread which is woven about a weaver's loom: or, with a weaver's beam. If my hair, which is all divided into seven locks, be fastened about a weaver's beam; or interwoven with weaver's threa...

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