Samson · Issue #4 of 6
The Gates Of Gaza
Judges 16:1–14 · World English Bible
Judges 16:1
Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
Judges 16:2
The Gazites were told,
Samson is here!
They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying,
Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.
Judges 16:3
Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
Judges 16:4
It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Judges 16:5
The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her,
Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.
Judges 16:6
Delilah said to Samson,
Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.
Judges 16:7
Samson said to her,
If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
Judges 16:8
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Judges 16:9
Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him,
The Philistines are on you, Samson!
He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
Judges 16:10
Delilah said to Samson,
Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.
Judges 16:11
He said to her,
If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then I will become weak, and be as another man.
Judges 16:12
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him,
The Philistines are on you, Samson!
The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
Judges 16:13
Delilah said to Samson,
Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.
He said to her,
If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.
Judges 16:14
She fastened it with the pin, and said to him,
The Philistines are on you, Samson!
He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.
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