“ Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot,a and went in unto her. ”
Gaza - About 8 hours from Eleutheropolis, and one of the chief strong-holds of the Philistines.
Then went Samson to (a) Gaza, and saw there an harlot, (b) and went in unto her. (a) One of the five chief cities of the Philistines. (b) That is, he lodged with her.
Samson Carries off the Gates of Gaza. Gaza was the last coast town on the way down to Egypt, about 30 m. from Samson's home; to-day a town of 16,000 inhabitants. Judges 16:2 b does not agree...
Then . and. Gaza. About thirty-five miles south of his native place. an harlot. He could rend. lion, but not his lusts. He could break his bonds, but not his habits. He could conquer the Phili...
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot - The Chaldee, as in the former case, renders the clause thus: Samson saw the...
Samson carries away the gates of Gaza: falls in love with Delilah, to whom he confesses that his strength would leave him if his head should be shaven. His hair being shaven off while he is asleep,...
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. Gaza х `Azaataah ( H5804 ), the strong] - now Guzzah; the capital of the largest of the five Philistine principal...
Gaza ] 2 m. from the coast, and the last town of Palestine on the coast road to Egypt. Here Samson would be a whole day's journey from his mountain home, in his enemies' territory. 2, 3. They app...
Then went Samson to Gaza. — Rather, And Samson, &c. The narrative is brief and detached. Gaza is near the sea, and was the chief town of the Philistines, in the very heart of their country. I...
PLEASURE AND PERIL IN GAZA Judges 16:1-3 By courage and energy Samson so distinguished himself in his own tribe and on the Philistine border that he was recognised as judge. Government of any k...
Playing with the Enemy Judges 16:1-14 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...
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 th...
CONTENTS The close of Samson's history forms the subject of this Chapter. We have in it a melancholy proof of our fallen nature, in the renewed breakings out of lustful passions in Samson, and the s...
Then went Samson to Gaza ,.... One of the five principalities of the Philistines, which was ten miles from Ashkelon, as Sandys q says; who also describes r it as standing upon an hill environed with...
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. Ver. 1. Then went Samson to Gaza. ] Not by a call from God, but of his own mind, as some think, presuming upon his strength...
And saw there a harlot Although the Hebrew word זונה, zoneh , here rendered harlot , also means a woman that keeps an inn, it seems evident, on the face of the story, that this woman really was w...
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 b...
Samson's Escape from Gaza. B. C. 1120. 1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlo...
JUDGES CHAPTER 16 Samson goeth in to a harlot; is hemmed in; riseth at midnight; taketh the city gates, posts, and bars on his shoulders, and carrieth them up into a mountain, Judges 16:1-3 . Is...
Chapter 16. Samson's Decline, Downfall and Final Triumph. By including Judges 15:20 the writer deliberately divided his story into two halves. The first part was, as we have seen, a story mainl...
( Judges 16:1-31 .) 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...
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 contempora...
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...
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...
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...
Then went Samson to Gaza, on the Mediterranean, in Southwestern Philistia, one of the chief strongholds of his enemies, and saw there an harlot, a public prostitute, and went in unto her, thus be...
Ezra 9:1 ; Ezra 9:2 ; Genesis 10:19 ; Genesis 38:16-18 ; Joshua 15:47
And saw — Going into an house of publick entertainment to refresh himself. He there saw this harlot accidentally; and by giving way to look upon her, was ensnared, Genesis 3:6 .