Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
"He carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron"  (Judges 16:3).  There are two ways of looking at this.  "That is before Hebron" can be interpreted as, "in the direction of Hebron," or as meaning one of the foothills of the mountain near Hebron.  Accordingly, Keil gave the distance that Samson carried the gates as about "Nine geographical miles,"[12]  but Strahan gave it as "Forty miles"; Armerding made it "Thirty-eight miles";[13] and Kyle Yates wrote that, "Samson was able to lift the gates of the city, with their posts and the bar which fastened them, and carry them forty miles to the vicinity of Hebron."[14]