Richter 16:3

Lutherbibel

Simson aber lag bis Mitternacht. Da stand er auf zu Mitternacht und ergriff beide Türen an der Stadt Tor samt den Pfosten und hob sie aus mit den Riegeln und legte sie auf seine Schultern und trug sie hinauf auf die Höhe des Berges vor Hebron.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Simson aber lag bis Mitternacht. Zu Mitternacht aber stand er auf und ergriff beide Flügel des Stadttors samt den beiden Pfosten und hob sie aus den Riegeln und legte sie auf seine Schultern und trug sie hinauf auf die Höhe des Berges von Hebron.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und Simson lag bis Mitternacht. Um Mitternacht aber stand er auf und ergriff die Fl�gel des Stadttores und die beiden Pfosten, und ri� sie samt dem Riegel heraus und legte sie auf seine Schultern; und er trug sie auf den Gipfel des Berges, der gegen Hebron hin liegt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

took: Psalms 107:16, Isaiah 63:1-5, Micah 2:13, Acts 2:24

bar and all: Heb. with the bar

Reciprocal: Judges 16:20 - I will go 1 Samuel 23:7 - he is shut Psalms 59:1 - when Acts 9:24 - their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight,.... Either not being able to lie any longer through the conviction of his conscience for his lewdness, or being warned by a dream, or having an impulse upon his spirit, which suggested to him that wait was laid for him, and the danger he was in; and coming to the gate of the city, which he found shut and fast barred and bolted, and the watch perhaps asleep, not expecting his coming until daylight:

and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all; did not stand to break open the doors of the gate, but took the two side posts up, on which the folding doors of the gate were hung, out of the ground in which they were fastened, with the bar which went across the doors for the security of them:

and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron; if this hill was near Hebron, as the words thus read seem to intimate, he must carry the gates twenty miles upon his shoulders, for so far was Hebron from Gaza; so Josephus says it was over Hebron; but according to Adrichomius t, it was near Gaza, looking towards Hebron; and so Sandys says u, in the valley, on the east side of the city, are many straggling buildings, beyond which there is a hill more eminent than the rest, on the north side of the way that leads to Babylon, said to be that to which Samson carried the gates of the city. It is very probable, as some think, that it was between Gaza and Hebron, in sight of both cities, which may be meant by the phrase "before", or "on the face of"; being so high might be seen as far as Hebron, as well as at Gaza. This was an emblem of Christ's resurrection, of whom Samson was a type, who being encompassed in a sepulchre, and sealed and watched by soldiers, broke through the bars of death and the grave, and carried off the doors in triumph; and in a short time ascended to heaven, whereby he declared himself to be the Son of God with power. It was usual for doors and bars of gates to be carried in triumph, and laid up in temples w; and the Jews say these doors were not less than sixty cubits, and suppose Samson's shoulders to be as broad x.

t "Theatrum Terrae Sanet". p. 133. u Ut supra, (Travels l. 3.) p. 117. w "----sacris in postibus arma: ----et portarum ingentia claustra." Virgil. Aeneid. 7. ver. 185. x T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 10. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Instead of forcing the doors open, he tore the posts up, as it were, by the roots, with the barred doors attached to them. The word rendered “went away with them,” means “to pluck up the tent-pins,” and hence, “to remove.” The present town of Gaza (Ghuzzeh) is an open town, without gates or walls, but the sites of the ancient gates still remain visible. One of these, on the southeast, is shown as the gate carried off by Samson.

A partially-isolated hill, about half-an-hour southeast of Gaza, and standing out from the chain that runs up to Hebron, bears the name of “Samson’s Mount.” But it may be doubted whether one of the hills overlooking Hebron is not rather meant.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 16:3. Took the doors of the gate — Though Samson was a very strong man, yet we do not find that he was a giant; consequently we may conjecture that the gates of the city were not very large, as he took at once the doors, the two posts, and the bar, with him. The cities of those days would appear to disadvantage among modern villages.

A hill - before Hebron. — Possibly there were two Hebrons; it could not be the city generally understood by the word Hebron, as that was about twenty miles distant from Gaza: unless we suppose that על פני חברון al peney Chebron is to be understood of the road leading to Hebron: he carried all to the top of that hill which was on the road leading to Hebron.