The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
"The Philistines’ hatred of Samson must have been mitigated by respect for his achievements and they made no apparent effort to abuse his corpse or to refuse him burial in his family tomb (cf. the dishonoring of Saul’s body, 1 Samuel 31:9-10). The treatment of a body after death was a matter of importance in the ancient world . . ." [Note: Cundall and Morris, p. 181.] 