Samson Possesses the Gates of His Enemies

Attention was directed to the reactions of the Philistines to Samson's exploits among them. First they chose to regard Samson's attacks on them as the evil work of a Hebrew stung by personal insults and injuries, thus as a private quarrel between himself and a few Philistines, and therefore took no notice of his doings. But when, as a result of Samson's slaying them with a great slaughter, it became plain that he had designs upon them all and that his real grievance was their oppression of his...