Teks -- Judges 16:25 (NET)

16:25 When they really started celebrating, they said, “Call for Samson so he can entertain us!” So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. They made him stand between two pillars.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jdg 16:25 - Made sport

Either being made by them the matter of their sport and derision, of bitter scoffs, and other indignities: or, by some proofs of more than ordinary strength yet remaining in him, like the ruins of a great and goodly building: whereby he lulled them asleep, until by this complaisance he prepared the way for that which he designed.

Clarke: Jdg 16:25 - Call for Samson, that he may make us sport

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, Jdg 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 pretense 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.

TSK: Jdg 16:25 - their hearts // them // sport

their hearts : Jdg 9:27, Jdg 18:20, Jdg 19:6, Jdg 19:9; 2Sa 13:28; 1Ki 20:12; Est 3:15; Isa 22:13; Dan 5:2, Dan 5:3; Mat 14:6, Mat 14:7

them : Heb. before them

sport : Job 30:9, Job 30:10; Psa 35:15, Psa 35:16, Psa 69:12, Psa 69:26; Pro 24:17, Pro 24:18; Mic 7:8-10; Mat 26:67, Mat 26:68, Mat 27:29, Mat 27:39-44; Heb 11:36

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jdg 16:25 - He made them sport

He made them sport either, first, Passively, being made by them the matter of their sport and derision, and of many bitter scoffs, and other indignities or injuries; or, secondly Actively, by some ridiculous actions, or some proofs of more than ordinary strength yet remaining in him, like the ruins of a great and goodly building; whereby he halted them asleep in security, until by this seeming complaisance he prepared the way for that which he designed; otherwise his generous soul would never have been forced to make them sport, save in order to their destruction.

Haydock: Jdg 16:25 - Played // Two pillars

Played. Dancing in a ridiculous manner, (Montanus) running against the walls, or falling down, so as to make the people laugh, (Lyranus) or rather (Haydock) Serarius gathers from the Septuagint that "they buffetted him," and made a sport of him. (Menochius) ---

It is not at all probable that Samson would act the ape before the Philistines; but, in attempting to keep off the rabble with many a fruitless blow, against his will he might make them merry. (Calmet) ---

He appeared before them in the garb of a slave, covered with the dust of the mill, (Salien) like our Saviour in a fool's garment. (Haydock) ---

Two pillars. The temples of Hercules, at Tyre and in Africa, had the same number. (Porphyrius, Abst. 2.) ---

The temple of Dagon was supported on wooden pillars standing near each other. People might see down from the roof. (Serarius) ---

We read that the theatre of Rome rested on one pivot, and the amphitheatre on two. Ecce populus Romanus universus, says Pliny, ([Natural History?] xxxvi. 15,) binis cardinibus sustinetur. (Calmet) ---

The roofs of the Philistine temples were flat, and galleries all around them, so that an immense crowd might be collected, (Menochius) to gaze on this terror of their country, now their prey. They had forgotten how he had formerly carried off their gates, or they concluded that his amazing strength was gone for ever. (Haydock)

Gill: Jdg 16:25 - And it came to pass when their hearts were merry // and they said, call for Samson, that he may make us sport // and they called for Samson out of the prison house // and he made them sport // and they set him between the pillars

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", Jdg 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.