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Judges 16:26 KJV
Judges · chapter 16 · verse 26
And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.Judges 16:26 · King James Version
Judges 16:26 in context
24And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
25And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
26And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.
27Now 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.
28And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- pillarsʻammûwda columnH5982 →
- SamsonShimshôwnShimshon, an IsraeliteH8123 →
- Sufferyânachto depositH3240 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- heldchâzaqto fasten uponH2388 →
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Though the last stage of Samson's life was inglorious, and one could wish there were a veil drawn over it, yet this account here given of his death may be allowed to lessen, though it does not quite roll away, the reproach of it; for there was honour in his death.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-31