23Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. …
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. …
And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. …
Commentary
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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