30And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
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For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, …
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
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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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