When their hearts were merry. — Comp. Judges 9:27; 1 Samuel 25:36; Esther 1:10.
That he may make us sport. — Whether by his forced jests, or by feats of strength, or merely by being made to submit to insults, we cannot tell. Josephus says that they sent for Samson “that they might insult him over their wine.”
He made them sport. — The LXX says (Cod. B), “And he played before them, and they beat him with rods.”