Popular Bible Verses from Judges 16

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Then she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” When he awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I’ll go out as at other times, and shake myself off.” He did not comprehend that ADONAI had departed from him.

Then Samson called out to ADONAI and said, “My Lord ADONAI, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, so that I may this once take revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

So he divulged to her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever been upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will be weak and be like any other man.”

Now it came about when she nagged him daily with her speeches and kept bothering him, his soul was annoyed to death.

Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bent with all his might so that the temple fell on the lords and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed during his life.