took the doors: i.e. unhinged both leaves. Compare Isaiah 45:1.
an hill. the hill.
before. over against.
Related Commentaries of Judges 16:3
Judges 16:3
3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, barb and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.