Judges 16:2
And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.
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Gill's Exposition
And it was told the Gazites,.... The inhabitants of Gaza, the principal ones of it, the magistrates of the city, either by some persons that saw him come in, who knew him, or by the harlot into whose…
Here is, 1. Samson's sin, Jdg 16:1. His taking a Philistine to wife, in the beginning of his time, was in some degree excusable, but to join himself to a harlot that he accidentally saw among them was…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
And it was told the Gazites The verb has fallen out by accident; the LXX read it in the text.
all night in the gate The text makes the Philistines lie in wait all the night, and keep quiet all the…
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