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 burying place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
Then his brethren ... brought him up,, and buried him. This awful catastrophe seems to have so completely paralyzed the Philistines that they neither attempted to prevent the removal of Samson's corpse (which was conveyed by his relatives for interment, according to Josephus, 'in Sarasat (Zorah), his own country, with the rest of his family'), nor to molest the Israelites for a long time after. Thus the Israelite hero rendered by his strength and courage signal services to his country, and was always regarded as the greatest of its champions. But his slavish subjection to the domination of his passions was unworthy of so great a man, and lessens our respect for his character. Yet he is ranked among the ancient worthies who maintained a firm faith in (Hebrews 11:32).