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Judges 16 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Judges 16, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 31
- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 12
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Judges 16 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁמְשׁוֹן | Shimshôwn | H8123 | 19 | Shimshon |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּי | Pᵉlishtîy | H6430 | 13 | Pelishtite |
| אָסַר | ʼâçar | H631 | 10 | yoke, hitch |
| סֶרֶן | çeren | H5633 | 7 | axle, peer |
| דְּלִילָה | Dᵉlîylâh | H1807 | 6 | Delilah |
| כֹּחַ | kôach | H3581 | 7 | vigor, large lizard |
| נָגַד | nâgad | H5046 | 7 | front, manifest |
How preachers through history handled this text
12 public-domain excerpts on Judges 16, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Samson had been more than once brought into mischief and danger by the love of women, yet he would not take warning, but is again taken in the same snare, and this third time is fatal. Licentiousness is one of the things that take away the heart. This is a deep pit into which many have fallen; but from which few have escaped, and those by a miracle of mercy, with the loss of reputation and usefulness, of almost all, except their souls. The anguish of the suffering is ten thousand times greater than all the pleasures of the sin.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Judges 16:4–17 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Gaza — Judg 16:1
- Hebron — Judg 16:3
- Eshtaol — Judg 16:31
- Zorah — Judg 16:31
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