Judges Chapter 16

Samson and Delilah

Samson went to Gaza and there he saw a prostitute and he went into her.

The gazeites were told, Samson has come here.

And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city.

They kept quiet all night saying,

Let us wait to the light of the morning, then we will kill him. But Samson lay till midnight,

and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, in the two posts,

and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill

that is in front of Hebron.

After this, he loved a woman of the Valley of Zorak, whose name was Delilah,

and the Lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her,

seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him,

that we may bind him to humble him, and we will each give you

one thousand one hundred pieces of silver.

So Delilah said to Samson, please tell me where your great strengths lie and how you might

be bound that one could subdue you.

Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven fresh bow-strings that have not been dried, then I shall become

weak and be like any other man.

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bow-strings that had not

been dried, and she bound him with them.

Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber, and she said to him, the Philistines are upon you,

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