samson <JUG13 -24> And the woman bare a son, and called his name

{Samson}: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

samson <JUG14 -1> And {Samson} went down to Timnath, and saw a

woman

in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

samson <JUG14 -3> Then his father and his mother said unto him,

[Is

there] never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or

among

all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the

uncircumcised

Philistines? And {Samson} said unto his father, Get h

er for me; for she pleaseth me well.

samson <JUG14 -5> Then went {Samson} down, and his father and his

mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and,

behold, a young lion roared against him.

samson <JUG14 -7> And he went down, and talked with the woman;

and

she pleased {Samson} well.

samson <JUG14 -10> So his father went down unto the woman: and

{Samson} made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

samson <JUG14 -12> And {Samson} said unto them, I will now put

forth

a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the

seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you

thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

samson <JUG15 -1> But it came to pass within a while after, in

the

time of wheat harvest, that {Samson} visited his wife with a kid;

and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her

father would not suffer him to go in.

samson <JUG15 -3> And {Samson} said concerning them, Now shall I

be

more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a

displeasure.

samson <JUG15 -4> And {Samson} went and caught three hundred

foxes,

and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a

firebrand in

the midst between two tails.

samson <JUG15 -6> Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this?

And

they answered, {Samson}, the son in law of the Timnite, because

he

had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the

Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire

.

samson <JUG15 -7> And {Samson} said unto them, Though ye have

done

this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

samson <JUG15 -10> And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up

against us? And they answered, To bind {Samson} are we come up,

to

do to him as he hath done to us.

samson <JUG15 -11> Then three thousand men of Judah went to the

top

of the rock Etam, and said to {Samson}, Knowest thou not that the

Philistines [are] rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast

done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto m

e, so have I done unto them.

samson <JUG15 -12> And they said unto him, We are come down to

bind

thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.

And

{Samson} said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall

upon

me yourselves.

samson <JUG15 -16> And {Samson} said, With the jawbone of an ass,

heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand

men.

samson <JUG16 -1> Then went {Samson} to Gaza, and saw there an

harlot, and went in unto her.

samson <JUG16 -2> [And it was told] the Gazites, saying,

{Samson} is

come hither. And they compassed [him] in, and laid wait for him

all

night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night,

saying,

In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him

.

samson <JUG16 -3> And {Samson} lay till midnight, and arose at

midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two

posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put [them] upon

his

shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that

 [is] before Hebron.

samson <JUG16 -6> And Delilah said to {Samson}, Tell me, I pray

thee, wherein thy great strength [lieth], and wherewith thou

mightest be bound to afflict thee.

samson <JUG16 -7> And {Samson} said unto her, If they bind me

with

seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak,

and

be as another man.

samson <JUG16 -9> Now [there were] men lying in wait, abiding

with

her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines [be]

upon

thee, {Samson}. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is

broken

when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not

 known.

samson <JUG16 -10> And Delilah said unto {Samson}, Behold, thou

hast

mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith

thou mightest be bound.

samson <JUG16 -12> Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound

him

therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee,

{Samson}. And [there were] liers in wait abiding in the chamber.

And

he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

samson <JUG16 -13> And Delilah said unto {Samson}, Hitherto thou

hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou

mightest be

bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of

my

head with the web.

samson <JUG16 -14> And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said

unto

him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, {Samson}. And he awaked out

of

his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the

web.

samson <JUG16 -20> And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee,

{Samson}. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out

as

at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the

LORD was departed from him.

samson <JUG16 -23> Then the lords of the Philistines gathered

them

together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god,

and to

rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered {Samson} our enemy

into our hand.

samson <JUG16 -25> And it came to pass, when their hearts were

merry, that they said, Call for {Samson}, that he may make us

sport.

And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made

them

sport: and they set him between the pillars.

samson <JUG16 -25> And it came to pass, when their hearts were

merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us

sport.

And they called for {Samson} out of the prison house; and he made

them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

samson <JUG16 -26> And {Samson} said unto the lad that held him

by

the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the

house

standeth, that I may lean upon them.

samson <JUG16 -27> Now the house was full of men and women; and

all

the lords of the Philistines [were] there; and [there were] upon

the

roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while

{Samson}

made sport.

samson <JUG16 -28> And {Samson} called unto the LORD, and said, O

Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray

thee,

only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the

Philistines for my two eyes.

samson <JUG16 -29> And {Samson} took hold of the two middle

pillars

upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the

one

with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

samson <JUG16 -30> And {Samson} said, Let me die with the

Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the

house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were]

therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than

[they]

which he slew in his life.

samson <HEB11 -32> And what shall I more say? for the time would

fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of] Barak, and of] {Samson}, and

of]

Jephthae; of] David also, and Samuel, and of] the prophets:

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