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Verse Judges 16:21. _PUT OUT HIS EYES_] Thus was the lust of the eye,
in looking after and gazing on strange women, punished. As the
Philistines did not know that his strength might not return, they p...
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PUT OUT HIS EYES - Thus effectually, as they thought, preventing any
future mischief on his part, while they prolonged their own triumph
and revenge. (Compare Numbers 16:14; 2 Kings 25:7; Jeremiah 39:...
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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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FETTERS OF BRASS. Hebrew "two brasses". Put by Figure of speech
_Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the two fetters made of brass. App-6.
GRIND. The work of women and slaves. Denotes the condition to which he...
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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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_to Gaza_ -His degeneration began at Gaza, therefore he was punished
at Gaza," runs the Rabbinic comment, which also sees a just
retribution for the sin of his eyes (Judges 14:3 lit. -she is right in...
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THE PHILISTINES TOOK HIM, &C.— The design of the Philistines in
putting out Samson's eyes, was to prevent him from undertaking any
future enterprize against them; thus, by the just judgment of God, th...
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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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_BUT THE PHILISTINES TOOK HIM, AND PUT OUT HIS EYES, AND BROUGHT HIM
DOWN TO GAZA, AND BOUND HIM WITH FETTERS OF BRASS; AND HE DID GRIND IN
THE PRISON HOUSE._
The Philistines took him, and put out hi...
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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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PUT OUT HIS EYES. — the margin, “bored out,” is more correct.
The Arabic version has the curious gloss that they burnt out his eyes
with the red-hot style with which _stibium_ (see Job 42:14) is appli...
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וַ יֹּאחֲז֣וּהוּ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַֽ
יְנַקְּר֖וּ אֶת...
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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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Chains. Hebrew and Septuagint add, "of brass," which were more ancient
than those of iron or of steel. Brass was generally used instead of
the latter, for knives, &c. (Calmet) --- Gaza, the place wher...
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But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him
down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in
the prison house.
Awfully let us remark the punishment suited...
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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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BUT THE PHILISTINES TOOK HIM,.... Being assured by Delilah that his
strength was gone from him, of which perhaps she had made trial by
binding him, and found he could not free himself from the bonds t...
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But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him
down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in
the prison house.
Ver. 21. _Took him, and put out his eyes._...
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_The Philistines put out his eyes_ Which was done both out of revenge
and policy, to disable him from doing them harm, in case he should
recover his strength; but not without God's providence, punishi...
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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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But the Philistines took him, laid hold on him in avenging hatred, AND
PUT OUT HIS EYES, AND BROUGHT HIM DOWN TO GAZA, AND BOUND HIM WITH
FETTERS OF BRASS, as a safeguard against his escaping; AND HE...
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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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THE PHILISTINES now durst apprehend him, because they rested in the
assurance which Delilah had given them, that now all was discovered
and done. PUT OUT HIS EYES; which was done by them out of reveng...
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Judges 16:21 Philistines H6430 took H270 (H8799) out H5365 (H8762)
eyes H5869 down H3381 (H8686) Gaza...
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Judges 16:21 a
‘And the Philistines laid hold of him.'
He saw the Philistines enter the room, their strongest and their best.
He exerted himself anticipating that his battle strength would be
there f...
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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—NOTE ON JUDGES 16:20 THE LORD HAD LEFT HIM. Samson broke the
final Nazirite stipulation when his hair was cut. The power the Lord
had given him was now gone (see note on...
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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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2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Kings 25:7; Exodus 11:5; Isaiah 47:2; Matth
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His eyes — Which was done both out of revenge and policy, to disable
him from doing them harm, in case he should recover his strength; but
not without God's providence, punishing him in that part whic...