Judges 16:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

fetters of brass. Hebrew "two brasses". Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for the two fetters made of brass. App-6.

grind. The work of women and slaves. Denotes the condition to which he was reduced. Compare Exodus 11:5.Isaiah 47:2.

Judges 16:21

21 But the Philistines took him, and put outh his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.