Judges 16:13
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| Overview - Judges 16 | |
| 1 | Samson at Gaza escapes, and carries away the gates of the city. |
| 4 | Delilah, corrupted by the Philistines, entices Samson. |
| 6 | Thrice she is deceived. |
| 15 | At last she overcomes him. |
| 21 | The Philistines take him, and put out his eyes. |
| 22 | His strength renewing he pulls down the house upon the Philistines, and dies. |
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Judges 16:13 (King James Version)
And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
- with the web
- It is evident that this verse ends abruptly, and does not contain a full sense. Houbigant has particularly noticed this, and corrected the text from the Septuagint: which adds after these words, [kai enkrouses to passalo eis ton toichou, kai esomai hos eis ton anthropon asthenes kai egeneto en to koimasthai auton kai elabe Dalida tas hepta seiras tes kephales autou, kai hyphanen en to diasmati, k
- t.l.] "and shall fasten them with the pin in the wall, I shall become weak like other men: and so it was, that when he slept, Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web," etc. This is absolutely necessary to complete the sense; else Delilah would appear to do something she was not ordered to do, and to omit what she was commanded
- Dr. Kennicott very judiciously observes, that the omission, for such it appears to be, begins and ends with the same word; and that the same word occurring in different places, is a very common cause of omission in Hebrew manuscripts.
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