Judges 16:24

16:24 When the people saw him, ¹  they praised their god, saying, “Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!” ² 

Judges 16:30

16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard ³  and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life. ⁴ 

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¹ tn Most interpret this as a reference to Samson, but this seems premature, since v. 25 suggests he was not yet standing before them. Consequently some prefer to see this statement as displaced and move it to v. 25 (see C. F. Burney, Judges, 387). It seems more likely that the pronoun refers to an image of Dagon.

² tn Heb “multiplied our dead.”

³ tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”

⁴ tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”