Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
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Gill's Exposition
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together,.... The five lords, with their friends, not directly upon Samson's being taken and committed to prison, but some time after; perhaps some…
Barnes' Notes
Dagon was the national idol of the Philistines 1Ch 10:10, so called from Dag, a fish. The description of Dagon, in his temple at Ashdod 1Sa 5:4, exactly agrees with the representations of a fish-god…
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…
Cambridge Bible
a great sacrifice unto Dagon at Gaza, as the context suggests (Jdg 16:16). Dagon was the god specially honoured by the Philistines; he had a temple at Ashdod (1Sa 5:2-7,1Ma 10:83 f., Jdg 11:4) and…
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