3And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
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The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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