Juges 16:27

La Bible David Martin

Or la maison était pleine d'hommes et de femmes, et tous les Gouverneurs des Philistins y étaient. Il y avait même sur le toit près de trois mille personnes tant d'hommes, que de femmes, qui regardaient Samson se jouer.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Or, la maison �tait pleine d'hommes et de femmes, et tous les princes des Philistins y �taient; il y avait m�me sur la plate-forme pr�s de trois mille personnes, hommes et femmes, qui regardaient Samson jouer.

Darby's French Translation
Et la maison �tait remplie d'hommes et de femmes; et tous les princes des Philistins �taient l�, et, sur le toit, environ trois mille hommes et femmes qui regardaient Samson jouer.

Louis Segond (1910)
La maison �tait remplie d'hommes et de femmes; tous les princes des Philistins �taient l�, et il y avait sur le toit environ trois mille personnes, hommes et femmes, qui regardaient Samson jouer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and there: "Samson, therefore," says Dr. Shaw, "must have been in a court or area below; and consequently the temple will be of the same kind with the ancient, פולוםח, or sacred enclosures, which were only surrounded either in part, or on all sides, with some plain or cloistered buildings. Several palaces, doutwanas, (as the courts of justice are called in those countries) are built in this fashion. On their public festivals and rejoicings, the roofs of these cloisters are crowded with spectators. I have often seen numbers of people diverted in this manner on the roof of the dey's palace at Algiers; which, like many others, has an advanced cloister, over against the gate of the palace, like a long pent-house, supported by one or two contiguous pillars in front, or centre."

the roof: Judges 9:51, Deuteronomy 22:8, Joshua 2:8, 2 Samuel 11:2

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 10:21 - full from one end to another

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now the house was full of men and women,.... 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 16:27. Now the house was full of men — It was either the prison-house, house of assembly, or a temple of Dagon, raised on pillars, open on all sides, and flat-roofed, so that it could accommodate a multitude of people on the top.