Judges 16:1

Gaza - About 8 hours from Eleutheropolis, and one of the chief strong-holds of the Philistines.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

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,...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 16,00...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 bon...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 fo...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 sha...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. Gaza х `Azaataah ( H5804 ), the strong] - now Guzzah; the capita...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Samson's Escape from Gaza. Delilah's Treachery. Samson's Death 1-3. Samson and Gaza.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 th...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
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 Ga...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 brea...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 desc...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 ow...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 t...
L. 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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 16. Samson's Decline, Downfall and Final Triumph. By including Judges 15:20 the writer deliberately divided his story into two halves....
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

( 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 be...
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...
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, b...
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 s...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 9:1 ; Ezra 9:2 ; Genesis 10:19 ; Genesis 38:16-18 ; Joshua 15:47
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 he...

¹ Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot,a and went in unto her.

Related Commentaries of Judges 16:1

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Judges 16:1