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Text -- Judges 16:1-5 (NET)

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Samson’s Downfall
16:1 Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her. 16:2 The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here!” So they surrounded the town and hid all night at the city gate, waiting for him to leave. They relaxed all night, thinking, “He will not leave until morning comes; then we will kill him!” 16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. 16:4 After this Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley. 16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Delilah a woman from the valley of Sorek who tricked Samson
 · Gaza a city A Philistine town 5 km east of the Mediterranean and 60 west of Hebron,a town on the western coast of the territory of Judah,a town and the region it controled
 · Gazites residents of the town of Gaza
 · Hebron a valley and town of Judah 25 km west of the dead sea,son of Kohath son of Levi,son of Mareshah of Judah
 · Philistines a sea people coming from Crete in 1200BC to the coast of Canaan
 · Samson a man who was a Hebrew judge noted for his supernatural strength,son of Manoah of Dan; a judge of supernatural physical strength
 · Sorek a valley draining west from Jerusalem past Beth-Shemesh


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Samson | Delilah | Philistines | Hypocrisy | Israel | Judge | Friends | DAGON | Sorek | Gaza | Women | DELILAH, OR DELILAH | Conspiracy | Deception | PALESTINE, 2 | GATE | Gazathites | Fenced cities | FORTIFICATION; FORT; FORTIFIED CITIES; FORTRESS | Bribery | more
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NET Notes: Jdg 16:1 Heb “and he went in to her.” The idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go toR...

NET Notes: Jdg 16:2 Heb “until the light of the morning.”

NET Notes: Jdg 16:3 Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

NET Notes: Jdg 16:5 Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

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