5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
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And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. …
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Whether this leviathan be a whale or a crocodile is a great dispute among the learned, which I will not undertake to determine; some of the particulars agree more easily to the one, others to the other; both are very strong and fierce, and the power of the Creator appears in them. The ingenious Sir Richard Blackmore, though he admits the more received opinion concerning the behemoth , that it must…
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