However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.
Parallel translations
- WEB However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
- KJV Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
- BSB However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.
- NASB However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it was shaved off.
- NLT But before long, his hair began to grow back.
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Quick answer
Yet the hair of Samson's head begins to grow again after it was shaved. A quiet note of hope appears amid his ruin.
Overview
The detail is deliberate and significant: as his hair returns, so does the possibility of restored strength, signaling that God is not finished with him. The hair itself was only the sign; the real point is that God's mercy may yet revive His failed servant. This whisper of grace prepares for Samson's final, God-given act of deliverance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Lev 26:44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;
- Ps 106:44–45Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
- Ps 107:13–14Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
- Deut 32:36For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
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Israel's cycle of sin and rescue through flawed deliverers cries out for a Savior who never fails — the true and final Judge and Deliverer who saves his people not for a season but forever.
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