SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:30
y dijo Sansón: Muera yo con los filisteos. Y estribando con esfuerzo, cayó la casa sobre los príncipes, y sobre todo el pueblo que estaba en ella. Y fueron muchos más los que de ellos mató en su muerte, que los que había muerto en su vida.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 16:30
Verse 30. So the dead which he slew] We are informed that the house was full of men and women, with about three thousand of both sexes on the top; now as the whole house was pulled down, consequently the principal part of all these were slain; and among them we find there were the lords of the Philistines. The death of these, with so many of the inferior chiefs of the people, was such a crush to the Philistine ascendancy, that they troubled Israel no more for several years, and did not even attempt to hinder Samson's relatives from taking away and burying his dead body.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 30. And Samson said, let me die with the Philistines , etc.] He sought their death, and was content to lose his own life to be avenged on them; in neither of which did he act a criminal part as a judge of Israel; and from a public spirit he might desire the death of their enemies, and seek to effect it by all means possible; and was the more justifiable at this time, as they were not only insulting him, the representative of his nation, but were affronting the most high God with their idolatries, being now in the temple of their idol, and sacrificing to him. As for his own death, he did not simply desire that, only as he could not be avenged on his enemies without it, he was willing to submit to it; nor did he lay hands on himself, and cannot be charged with being guilty of suicide, and did no other than what a man of valour and public spirit will do; who for the good of his country will not only expose his life to danger in common, but for the sake of that will engage in a desperate enterprise, when he knows most certainly that he must perish in it. Besides, Samson said this, and did what he did under the direction and influence of the Spirit of God; and herein was a type of Christ, who freely laid down his life for his people, that he might destroy his and their enemies: and he bowed himself with all his might , having fresh strength, and a large measure of it given him at this instant, which he had faith in, and therefore made the attempt, and for which he is reckoned among the heroes for faith in ( Hebrews 11:32) and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein ; who were all killed, and Samson himself; an emblem this of the destruction of Satan, and his principalities and powers, by the death of Christ: so the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life ; for besides the lords, and they that were in the house, there were 3000 men and women on the roof, which fell in, and lost their lives also, so that it is very likely there were at least 6000 or 7000 slain; Philo Byblius says 40,000, which is not probable; whereas in his life we only read of 1000 slain by him with the jawbone, besides thirty men at Ashkelon, and the slaughter made when he smote hip and thigh, the number of which is not known. As this house pulled down by Samson is generally thought to be the temple of Dagon, a traveller in those parts tells us, that there is now extant the temple of Dagon in half demolished, and the pillars of it are yet to be seen; but he doubtless mistakes an edifice of a later construction for it: and another traveller of our own country says, on the northeast corner and summit of the hill (on which the city is built) are the ruins of huge arches sunk low in the earth, and other foundations of a stately building; the Jews, adds he, do fable this place to have been the theatre of Samson pulled down on the heads of the Philistines; but he takes it to be the ruins of a later building; (see Gill on “ 1 Samuel 5:2”).
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 תמות 4191 נפשׁי 5315 עם 5973 פלשׁתים 6430 ויט 5186 בכח 3581 ויפל 5307 הבית 1004 על 5921 הסרנים 5633 ועל 5921 כל 3605 העם 5971 אשׁר 834 בו ויהיו 1961 המתים 4191 אשׁר 834 המית 4191 במותו 4194 רבים 7227 מאשׁר 834 המית 4191 בחייו׃ 2416
