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22 His hair[a] began to grow back after it had been shaved off.

Samson’s Death and Burial

23 The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.” 24 When the people saw him,[b] 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!”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:22 tn Heb “the hair of his head.”
  2. Judges 16:24 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.
  3. Judges 16:24 tn Heb “multiplied our dead.”