Judges 16:23
The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
22However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
Cross References
1 Samuel 5:2The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.
Job 30:9“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
Proverbs 24:17Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
Micah 4:5Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
1 Corinthians 8:4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Matthew Henry on Judges 16:23-31
The Death of Samson; Samson's Triumph in Death. ( b. c. 1120.) 22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. 23 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. 24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. 25 And… Read the whole commentary →