Teks -- Judges 16:26 (NET)

16:26 Samson said to the young man who held his hand, “Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple. Then I can lean on them.”

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

Wesley: Jdg 16:26 - Whereon the house standeth

Whether it were a temple, or theatre, or some slight building run up for the purpose.

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

Gill: Jdg 16:26 - And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand // suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth // that I may lean upon them

And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand,.... And led him about; as nothing is more common now than for a blind man to be led by a boy:

suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth; he might by information know in what manner the house was built, that it was supported by pillars, if he had never been in it before when he had his sight; and he might understand, by some means or another, that he was near these pillars, and placed between them, though being blind, did not know which way to direct his hands towards them to feel them, as he proposed to do, and therefore desired the lad that led him to guide his hands towards them:

that I may lean upon them; being, as he might at least pretend to be, weary, as Josephus says ^x; either by grinding at the mill, or through being led to and fro in this house, that all might see him, and cast their flouts and jeers at him,