SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:26
Y Sansón dijo al joven que le guiaba de la mano: Acércame, y hazme tentar las columnas sobre que se sustenta la casa, para que me apoye sobre ellas.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 26. And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand , etc.] 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 f360 ; 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, Ver. 27 . Now the house was full of men and women , etc.] Within it, who were gathered together from all parts of the city, and perhaps from other places on this occasion: and all the lords of the Philistines were there ; their five lords, the lords of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron: and there were upon the roof three thousand men and women ; it being a flat roof, as the houses in Canaan and Phoenicia, and the places adjacent, were; (see Deuteronomy 22:8) and there might be some openings or windows in several parts of it, through which the people might see who were below them, and were within the house, and what was doing there, and particularly could have a sight of Samson through them as follows: that beheld while Samson made sport ; or was made a sport of; while he was buffeted and used in a ludicrous manner.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-31 - Nothing fills up the sins of any person or people faster than mockin and misusing the servants of God, even thought it is by their own foll that they are brought low. God put it into Samson's heart, as a publi person, thus to avenge on them God's quarrel, Israel's, and his own That strength which he had lost by sin, he recovers by prayer. That is was not from passion or personal revenge, but from holy zeal for the glory of God and Israel, appears from God's accepting and answering the prayer. The house was pulled down, not by the natural strength of Samson, but by the almighty power of God. In his case it was right he should avenge the cause of God and Israel. Nor is he to be accused of self-murder. He sought not his own death, but Israel's deliverance, an the destruction of their enemies. Thus Samson died in bonds, and amon the Philistines, as an awful rebuke for his sins; but he die repentant. The effects of his death typified those of the death of Christ, who, of his own will, laid down his life among transgressors and thus overturned the foundation of Satan's kingdom, and provided for the deliverance of his people. Great as was the sin of Samson, an justly as he deserved the judgments he brought upon himself, he foun mercy of the Lord at last; and every penitent shall obtain mercy, wh flees for refuge to that Saviour whose blood cleanses from all sin. But here is nothing to encourage any to indulge sin, from a hope they shal at last repent and be saved __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 שׁמשׁון 8123 אל 413 הנער 5288 המחזיק 2388 בידו 3027 הניחה 3240 אותי 853 והימשׁני 3237 את 853 העמדים 5982 אשׁר 834 הבית 1004 נכון 3559 עליהם 5921 ואשׁען 8172 עליהם׃ 5921
