22Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
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Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. …
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: …
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)Though the last stage of Samson’s life was inglorious, and one could wish there were a veil drawn over it, yet this account here given of his death may be allowed to lessen, though it does not quite roll away, the reproach of it; for there was honour in his death. No doubt he greatly repented of his sin, the dishonour he had by it done to God and his forfeiture of the honour God had put upon him;…
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