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Samson and Delilah

1 Now Samson went to aGaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.  
2 When the Gazites were told, “Samson has come here!” they asurrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They were quiet all night, saying, “In the morning, when it is daylight, we will kill him.”  
3 And Samson lay low till midnight; then he arose at midnight, took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two gateposts, pulled them up, bar and all, put them on his shoulders, and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Judges 16:1-2

SAMSON CARRIES AWAY THE GATES OF GAZA. (Judges 16:1-3)

Gaza—now Guzzah, the capital of the largest of the five Philistine principal cities, about fifteen miles southwest of Ashkelon. The object of this visit to this city is not recorded, and unless he had gone in disguise, it was a perilous exposure of his life in one of the enemy's strongholds. It soon became known that he was there; and it was immediately resolved to secure him. But deeming themselves certain of their prey, the Gazites deferred the execution of their measure till the morning.




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