Judges 16:1 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 16:1

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

KJV

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ASV

And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

WEB

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

YLT

And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her;

DBT

And Samson went to Gazah, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Joshua 15:47
Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:
Genesis 38:16–18
And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
1 Corinthians 6:16
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Genesis 10:19
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

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His sin began in his eye, with which he should have made a covenant; he saw there one in the attire of a harlot, and the lust which conceived brought forth sin: he went in unto her. Notice was sent to the magistrates of Gaza, perhaps by the treacherous harlot herself, that Samson was in the town,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), and now his punishment began there. Now that the Philistines had blinded him he had time to remember how his own lust had blinded him. The best preservative of the eyes is to turn them away from beholding vanity.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(2.) It was when they were praising Dagon their god, and giving that honour to him which is due to God only, which is no less than treason against the King of kings, his crown and dignity. Justly therefore is the blood of these traitors mingled with their sacrifices.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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