Judges Chapter 16

• Judges 16:1
  Judges.
• Judges 16:2
  Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
• Judges 16:3
  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, sa...
• Judges 16:4
  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...
• Judges 16:5
  It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
• Judges 16:6
  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 a...
• Judges 16:7
  Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
• Judges 16:8
  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 16:9
  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 16:10
  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 ...
• Judges 16:11
  Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
• Judges 16:12
  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 16:13
  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. H...
• Judges 16:14
  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 seve...
• Judges 16:15
  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 bea...
• Judges 16:16
  She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your...
• Judges 16:17
  When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
• Judges 16:18
  He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved...
• Judges 16:19
  When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told...
• Judges 16:20
  She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength w...
• Judges 16:21
  She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But h...
• Judges 16:22
  The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mi...
• Judges 16:23
  However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
• Judges 16:24
  The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Sa...
• Judges 16:25
  When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many ...
• Judges 16:26
  When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed befor...
• Judges 16:27
  and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.”
• Judges 16:28
  Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and wome...
• Judges 16:29
  Samson called to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of ...
• Judges 16:30
  Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.
• Judges 16:31
  Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were i...
• Judges 16:32
  Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial si...