Judges 16:1

He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman a harlot, and went in unto her.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

In Context

2And when the Philistines had beard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him, setting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the night in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went out.

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Cross References

Genesis 38:16When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known.

Judges 1:18And Juda took Gaza with its confines, and Ascalon and Accaron with their confines.

Ezra 9:1And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites.

Matthew Henry on Judges 16:1

Samson's name (we have observed before) signifies a little sun (sol parvus); we have seen this sun rising very bright, and his morning ray strong and clear; and, nothing appearing to the contrary, we take it for granted that the middle of the day was proportionably illustrious, while he judged Israel twenty years; but the melancholy story of this chapter gives us such an account of his evening as did not commend his day. This little sun set under a cloud, and yet, just in the setting, darted forth one such strong… Read the whole commentary →

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