John Gill Commentary Judges 16:24

"And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who hath slain many of us." — Judges 16:24 (ASV)

And when the people saw him
In the condition he was, blinded and fettered, of whom and of his great exploits they had heard so much: they praised their god; as Belshazzar did his, (Daniel 5:4) in hymns and songs composed for them, the substance of which was as follows:

for they said, our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, and the
destroyer of our country ;
as he had been, by tying firebrands to the tails of three hundred foxes, and letting them go into their cornfields, vineyards, and oliveyards:

which slew many of us ;
thirty men at Ashkelon, more at Timnath, and 1000 with the jawbone of an ass at Lehi.