Judges 16:27
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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 16:27 (King James Version)
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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- "Samson, therefore," says Dr. Shaw, "must have been in a court or area below; and consequently the temple will be of the same kind with the ancient, [temene,] or sacred enclosures, which were only surrounded either in part, or on all sides, with some plain or cloistered buildings. Several palaces, {doutwanas,} (as the courts of justice are called in those
- countries) are built in this fashion. On their public festivals and rejoicings, the roofs of these cloisters are crowded with spectators. I have often seen numbers of people diverted in this manner on the roof of the dey's palace at Algiers; which, like many others, has an advanced cloister, over against the gate of the palace, like a long pent-house, supported by one or two contiguous pillars in front, or centre."* the roof. 9:51 De 22:8 Jos 2:8 2Sa 11:2