Juízes 16:26

26 Sansão disse ao jovem que o guiava pela mão: “Ponha-me onde eu possa apalpar as colunas que sustentam o templo, para que eu me apoie nelas”.

Juízes 16:26 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 16:26

And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand
And led him about; as nothing is more common now than for a blind man to be led by a boy:

suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth;
he might by information know in what manner the house was built, that it was supported by pillars, if he had never been in it before when he had his sight; and he might understand, by some means or another, that he was near these pillars, and placed between them, though being blind, did not know which way to direct his hands towards them to feel them, as he proposed to do, and therefore desired the lad that led him to guide his hands towards them:

that I may lean upon them;
being, as he might at least pretend to be, weary, as Josephus says ^F24; either by grinding at the mill, or through being led to and fro in this house, that all might see him, and cast their flouts and jeers at him,

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 12.)

Juízes 16:26 In-Context

24 Quando o povo o viu, louvou o seu deus:“O nosso deus nos entregou o nosso inimigo,o devastador da nossa terra,aquele que multiplicavaos nossos mortos”.

25 Com o coração cheio de alegria, gritaram: “Tragam-nos Sansão para nos divertir!” E mandaram trazer Sansão da prisão, e ele os divertia.Quando o puseram entre as colunas,

26 Sansão disse ao jovem que o guiava pela mão: “Ponha-me onde eu possa apalpar as colunas que sustentam o templo, para que eu me apoie nelas”.

27 Homens e mulheres lotavam o templo; todos os líderes dos filisteus estavam presentes e, no alto, na galeria, havia cerca de três mil homens e mulheres vendo Sansão, que os divertia.

28 E Sansão orou ao SENHOR: “Ó Soberano SENHOR, lembra-te de mim! Ó Deus, eu te suplico, dá-me forças, mais uma vez, e faze com que eu me vingue dos filisteus por causa dos meus dois olhos!”