士師記 16:26-31 JCB

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 16:25-30

How wonderful are all the ways and works of God! By what solemn and striking providences, doth the Lord carry on his designs in the world! Samson's triumph was greater in his death, than in all the victories of his life. But Reader! let us pass by the mere circumstances of the history, with even all the moral improvements it affords, to attend to the spiritual views it exhibits. And here surely, if anywhere, we are called upon to behold this Nazarite of the Old Testament, as holding forth... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 16:31

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years. It is worthy remark, how careful the Patriarchs and early believers were, to record the monuments of their sepulchres. No doubt from one, and the same cause: they all died in faith of the promised redemption. See Heb_11:22; Heb_11:32 , etc. REFLECTIONS I CANNOT dismiss the review of... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:27

Play. It is not clear from the text, whether the 3000 were distinct from those who were below. It seems this is the number of all the slain, (Calmet) as Josephus asserts. But the Protestants insert, "the lords of the Philistines were there: and there were upon the roof," &c., which shews that they understand it in the same sense as the Vulgate and the Septuagint which distinguish these outside spectators from those who filled the house, and were in company with the princes. (Haydock) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:28

Revenge myself. This desire of revenge was out of zeal for justice against the enemies of God and his people; and not out of private rancour and malice of heart. (Challoner) --- He was judge of his people, and concerned for their wrongs: God, by miracle, testified that he approved of his sentiments. (Calmet) -- Septuagint insinuates that the cry of Samson was accompanied with tears, ( eklause. ) It was the cry of the heart, which is most eloquent with God. Hebrew and Septuagint, "strengthen me... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:29

Both the. Hebrew adds, "middle" pillars, so that their fall occasioned that the whole temple, (Calmet) excepting perhaps some of the ruins, which are still shewn at Gaza. (Button.) "He tugged, he shook till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them with bursts of thunder." (Milton) (Haydock) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:30

Let me die. Literally, let my soul die. Samson did not sin on this occasion, though he was indirectly the cause of his own death. Because he was moved to what he did, by a particular inspiration of God, who also concurred with him by a miracle, in restoring his strength upon the spot, in consequence of his prayer. Samson, by dying in this manner, was a figure of Christ, who by his death overcame all his enemies. (Challoner; Worthington) --- St. Augustine says, "he was not under a human... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:31

Twenty. "Why then, says the Thalmud of Jerusalem, does the Scripture allow him 40? That thou mightest understand the Philistines were kept in awe, by the fear of him, for 20 years after his decease." The Hebrew copies seems to have varied. (Drusius) --- Some refuse the Samson the title of judge, (Masius) as they suppose (Haydock) that Heli filled that office at the same time. But there might be several in different parts of the country, and Heli might administer sacred things, while Samson... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Judges 16:25-31

25-31 Nothing fills up the sins of any person or people faster than mocking and misusing the servants of God, even thought it is by their own folly that they are brought low. God put it into Samson's heart, as a public person, thus to avenge on them God's quarrel, Israel's, and his own. That strength which he had lost by sin, he recovers by prayer. That it was not from passion or personal revenge, but from holy zeal for the glory of God and Israel, appears from God's accepting and answering the... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Judges 16:22-31

The end of Samson v. 22. Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven, literally, as when he was shaven. for it came out again in a very short while, and the Philistines did not remember the significance of this. v. 23. Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon, their god, and to rejoice, as over a great victory, to be celebrated with a general feast of thanksgiving; for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Judges 16:21-31

Samson’s end. He slays more Philistines in his death than he had done in lifeJudges 16:21-3121But [And] the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza [’Azzah], and bound him with fetters of brass;22 and he did grind in the prison-house. 22Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after23 he was 23shaven. Then [And] the lords [princes] of the Philistines gathered them [themselves] together, for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice:... read more

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 16:25-30

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 16:31

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:27

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:28

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:29

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:30

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Judges 16:31

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Judges 16:25-31

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Judges 16:22-31

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Judges 16:21-31

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