Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines [were] there; and [there were] upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
Ver. 27. Now the house.] Dagon's temple: that where they had sinned, there they might suffer. So Ahab's blood was licked up by dogs in the place where he had slain Naboth. 1Ki 21:19 So Henry III of France was stabbed to death in that very chamber where he had contrived the massacre of Paris.
Was full of men and women.] Assembled they were, by an overruling Providence, that they might be "broken in pieces." Isa 8:9 So were the Baalites in mount Carmel, 1Ki 18:40 and afterwards in the house of their god, to be slain by Jehu. And so were the refractory Jews besieged and taken by the Romans at the feast of the Passover, when they were met together out of all parts of the land.