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Judges 16:7-9

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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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Judges 16:7. _SEVEN GREEN WITHS_] That is, any kind of _pliant, tough_ _wood_, twisted in the form of a cord or rope. Such are used in many countries formed out of _osiers, hazel_, c. And in Ir...

  • 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

    GREEN WITHS. green twigs. Anglo-Saxon,. willow, because of its twining and flexibility. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _seven green withes_ Follow marg.; similarly LXX and Vulgate The cords (cf. Psalms 11:2; Psalms 21:12) were to be made of _fresh_or _moist_gut. Elsewhere the adjective is applied to trees or fruit, he...

  • 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...

  • 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 SAMSON SAID UNTO HER, IF THEY BIND ME WITH SEVEN GREEN WITHS THAT WERE NEVER DRIED, THEN SHALL I BE WEAK, AND BE AS ANOTHER MAN._ Bind me with seven green withs. Vine tendrils, pliant twigs, or...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SAMSON'S ESCAPE FROM GAZA. DELILAH'S TREACHERY. SAMSON'S DEATH 1-3. Samson and Gaza....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Whether Samson suspects or not, he plays upon her credulity. The supposed secret of the 'green withs,' i.e. undried bowstrings made from the intestines of animals, has all the more verisimilitude beca...

  • 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

    GREEN WITHS. — The meaning of the words is uncertain. Probably the LXX. and the Vulg. are right in taking them to mean _moist, i.e., fresh sinews_ (Psalms 11:2) (LAX., _Neurais hugrais;_ Vulg., _Nervi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלֶ֨יהָ֙ שִׁמְשֹׁ֔ון אִם ־יַאַסְרֻ֗נִי...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Her, in jest. (Haydock) --- Sinews; such were frequently used for strength. (Vegetius iv. 9.; Psalm x. 2) Cato often speaks of loreos funes, (Calmet) or "leathern thongs." (Haydock) --- Moist. Hebrew,...

  • 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 SAMSON SAID UNTO HER,.... In answer to her pressing solicitations: IF THEY BIND ME WITH SEVEN GREEN WITHS THAT WERE NEVER DRIED; the word is sometimes used for nerves, and cords or ropes; but nei...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Ver. 7. _And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven gree...

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

    _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...

  • 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 Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes, seven cords of animal tendons not yet stretched, THAT WERE NEVER DRIED, THEN SHALL I BE WEAK AND BE AS ANOTHER MAN, endowed with only...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SAMSON AND DELILAH...

  • 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)

    GREEN WITHS: Or, new cords: _Heb._ moist ANOTHER: _ Heb._ one...

  • 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

    Samson is guilty both of the sin of lying, though he dress up the lie in such circumstances as might make it most probable; and of great folly, in encouraging her inquiries, which he should at first h...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Judges 16:7 Samson H8123 said H559 (H8799) bind H631 (H8799) seven H7651 fresh H3892 bowstrings H3499 dried...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh (green) withes that were never dried, then I will become weak, and be as another man.” '...

  • 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

    1 Samuel 19:17; 1 Samuel 21:2; 1 Samuel 21:3; 1 Samuel 27:10; C

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Samson said — Samson is guilty both of the sin of lying, and of great folly in encouraging her enquiries, which he should at first have checked: but as he had forsaken God, so God had now forsaken him...

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