31Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
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And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. …
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
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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