Judges 16:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

His brethren and all the house of his father. — Probably Manoah and his wife were dead. The religious terror caused by the catastrophe may well have prevented the people of Gaza from offering any opposition to the removal of his body.

“Samson hath quit himself

Like Samson, and heroically has finished
A life heroic.” — Milton.


Judges 16:31

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.