Judges 16:27
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
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Gill's Exposition
Now the house was full of men and women,.... Within it, who were gathered together from all parts of the city, and perhaps from other places on this occasion:
and all the lords of the Philistines…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
and all the lords … three thousand men and women No doubt an insertion to heighten the effect; grammatically full of men and womenis carried on by that beheld, shewing that the intervening words are…
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