Hakim-hakim 16:25

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ketika hati mereka riang gembira, berkatalah mereka: "Panggillah Simson untuk melawak bagi kita." Simson dipanggil dari penjara, lalu ia melawak di depan mereka, kemudian mereka menyuruh dia berdiri di antara tiang-tiang.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika hati mereka riang gembira, berkatalah mereka: "Panggillah Simson untuk melawak bagi kita." Simson dipanggil dari penjara, lalu ia melawak di depan mereka, kemudian mereka menyuruh dia berdiri di antara tiang-tiang.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sesungguhnya sementara mereka itu bersuka-sukaan, maka katanya: Panggillah akan Simson ke mari, supaya iapun bermain di hadapan kita. Maka dipanggilnyalah akan Simson keluar dari dalam penjara, lalu iapun bermain di hadapan mereka itu; maka disuruhnya akan dia berdiri di antara tiang rumah itu.

Contextual Overview

²² Howbeit the heere of his head began to growe agayne after that he was shauen. ²³ Then the lordes of the Philistines gathered them together, for to offer a solempne offring vnto Dagon their God, and to reioyce: For they sayd, Our God hath deliuered Samson our enemie into our handes. ²⁴ And when the people sawe him, they praysed their God: for they sayde, Our God hath delyuered into our handes our enemie, and destroyer of our countrey, whiche slue manye of vs. ²⁵ And when their heartes were mery, they sayde: Send for Samson, that he may make vs laugh. And they set Samson out of the prison house, and he played before them: and they set hym betweene the pyllers. ²⁶ And Samson sayde vnto the lad that led hym by the hande: Set me that I may touche the pyllers that the house standeth vpon, and that I may leane to them. ²⁷ And the house was full of men and women, and there were all the lordes of the Philistines: And there were vpon the roofe a three thousande men and women, that behelde whyle Samson played. ²⁸ And Samson called vnto the Lorde, and sayde: O Lorde God I pray thee thyncke vpon me, and strengthen me I beseche thee at this tyme onelye O God, that I may be at once auenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. ²⁹ And Samson caught the two middle pyllers on which the house stoode and on which it was borne vp, the one in his ryght hande, and the other in his left. ³⁰ And Samson sayde: My soule shall dye with the Philistines, and bowed them with all his myght, and the house fell vpon the lordes and vpon all the people that were therin: And so ye dead which he slue at his death, were mo then they which he slue in his lyfe. ³¹ And then his brethren & all the house of his father came downe, and toke him vp, and brought hym, and buryed hym betweene Zarah and Esthaol, in the burying place of Manoah his father: And he iudged Israel twentie yeres.

Bible Verse Review
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their hearts: Judges 9:27, Judges 18:20, Judges 19:6, Judges 19:9, 2 Samuel 13:28, 1 Kings 20:12, Esther 3:15, Isaiah 22:13, Daniel 5:2, Daniel 5:3, Matthew 14:6, Matthew 14:7

them: Heb. before them

sport: Job 30:9, Job 30:10, Psalms 35:15, Psalms 35:16, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 69:26, Proverbs 24:17, Proverbs 24:18, Micah 7:8-10, Matthew 26:67, Matthew 26:68, Matthew 27:29, Matthew 27:39-44, Hebrews 11:36

Reciprocal: Judges 19:22 - they were Ruth 3:7 - his heart Esther 1:10 - the heart Job 41:5 - play Psalms 80:6 - our enemies Isaiah 57:4 - sport Jeremiah 38:19 - mock Luke 22:64 - blindfolded

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass when their hearts were merry,.... With wine, for which Gaza is famous in many writers w; with eating and drinking, dancing, and music; for it was usual for the Heathens to feast in their temples, and especially no doubt they would on such an occasion as this:

and they said, call for Samson, that he may make us sport; by which it seems that what is before said, "when the people saw him", Judges 16:24 is said by anticipation; for as yet he was not in the temple, but in the prison; and therefore a motion was made by some of the great personages, that he might be fetched from thence, and they might have some diversion with him:

and they called for Samson out of the prison house; sent some messengers to fetch him from thence:

and he made them sport; not actively, but passively; it cannot well be thought, that a man of so great a spirit as Samson was, and in such circumstances as he now was, would ever, either by words or gestures, do anything on purpose to divert his enemies, and make them laugh; but he was the object of their sport and scorn, and he bore it patiently, their cruel mockings, buffetings, and spittings; in which he was a type of Christ. It was a diversion to them to see him in his rattling chains, groping, and blundering along from post to pillar, one perhaps giving him a box of the ear, or a slap of the face, another plucking him by his nose or beard, and another spitting in his face, and others taunting at him, and reproaching him:

and they set him between the pillars; that he might be the better seen, and in which there was the direction of Providence to bring about what follows.

w Vid. Rivinum de Majumis, &c. c. 6. sect. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That he may make us sport - Rather, “that he may play for us,” i. e. dance and make music. At an idolatrous feast, dancing was always accompanied with vocal and instrumental music.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 16:25. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport — What the sport was we cannot tell; probably it was an exhibition of his prodigious strength. This seems to be intimated by what is said, Judges 16:22, of the restoration of his hair; and the exertions he was obliged to make will account for the weariness which gave him the pretence to ask for leave to lean against the pillars. Some think he was brought out to be a laughing-stock, and that he was variously insulted by the Philistines; hence the version of the Septuagint: και ερραπιζον αυτον, and they buffeted him. Josephus, Antiq. Jud. lib. v., cap. 8, s. 12, says: He was brought out, ὁπως ενυβρισωσιν αυτον παρα τον ποτον, that they might insult him in their cups.