The Gates of Gaza - antique engraving circa 1700

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One day while Samson was in Gaza, he saw a prostitute and went to her house to spend the night. The people who lived in Gaza found out he was there, and they decided to kill him at sunrise. So they went to the city gate and waited all night in the guardrooms on each side of the gate: but Samson got up in the middle of the night and went to the town gate. He pulled the gate doors and doorposts out of the wall and put them on his shoulders. Then he carried them all the way to the top of the hill that overlooks Hebron, where he set the doors down, still closed and locked....or so relates a contemporary version of the Biblical tale illustrated in this engraving which is well over 300 years old and is from Sieur. de Royaumaont's "HISTORY of the BIBLE" published for Richard Blome in London in 1701.

Richard Blome (1635-1705) was a publisher and cartographer from the United Kingdom.

Please study images to ascertain condition of this very old print. Dimensions approximately 210 by 340mm. Price includes postage to any UK address


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DateEarly 18th Century Codeac051a1240 / m88 Price £40.00     46.24     $50.94    The price has been listed in British Pounds.
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