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 years' judgeship. GAZA, now
_Ghuzzeh_,_ _one of the five chief cities of the Philistines, once a
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 16:23
GATHERED THEM, _i.e._ themselves. TO REJOICE. The Hebrew _is for a
festivity_,_ _or _merry-making_,_ _or _feast. _There was to be a great
feast upon the sacrifices offered to Dagon their God. DAGON (from dag,
a fish in Hebrew), the national male god of the Philistines, as
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