Judges 16:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Samson called unto the Lord, &c.— We must always consider Samson in the light of an extraordinary person, immediately raised up by God for the chastisement of the Philistines. In this view his death was heroic, as he voluntarily sacrificed himself, by the only means in his power, to the service of his country, by the destruction of those who had in a base manner insulted him and his God, and who, holding Israel in bondage, vainly imagined their Dagon superior to the eternal JEHOVAH. As we have before remarked, Samson was unquestionably a very singular type of the Messiah: called and sanctified in and from the womb; set apart to deliver his people out of the hands of all their enemies; performing all by his own personal strength alone, without assistant, and almost without weapons (Isaiah 1:3.Hosea 1:7.); and in his death eminently doing more than in his life, thereby destroying the power of the devil, and triumphing over all his enemies. Hebrews 2:14.