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1Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Judges 16:1 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-3)Here is, 1. Samson’s sin, Jdg. 16:1. His taking a Philistine to wife, in the beginning of his time, was in some degree excusable, but to join himself to a harlot that he accidentally saw among them was such a profanation of his honour as an Israelite, as a Nazarite, that we cannot but blush to read it. Tell it not in Gath . This vile impurity makes the graceful visage of this Nazarite blacker than...
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