Judges 16
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1Then went Shimshon [Like the Sun] to ‘Azah [The Strong], and saw there an prostitute, and went in unto her.
2 [And it was told] the inhabitants of ‘Azah (‘Azah [The Strong]), saying, Shimshon [Like the Sun] is come here. 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.
3And Shimshon [Like the Sun] 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 Hevron [Seat of Association].
4And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek [choice vines], whose name [was] D’lilah [Feeble].
5And the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lies], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give youi everyone of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.
6And D’lilah [Feeble] said to Shimshon [Like the Sun], Tell me, I pray youi, wherein youi great strength [lies], and which youi might be bound to afflict youi.
7And Shimshon [Like the Sun] said unto her, If they bind me with seven green remainder that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
8Then the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] brought up to her seven green remainder which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
9Now [there were] men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The P’lishtim [Immigrants] [be] upon youi, Shimshon [Like the Sun]. And he broke the remainder, as a thread of tinder is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
10And D’lilah [Feeble] said unto Shimshon [Like the Sun], Behold, youi have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray youi, with which youi might be bound.
11And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
12D’lilah [Feeble] therefore took new ropes, and bound him with that, and said unto him, The P’lishtim [Immigrants] [be] upon youi, Shimshon [Like the Sun]. And [there were] liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.
13And D’lilah [Feeble] said unto Shimshon [Like the Sun], Till this point in time youi have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me which youi might be bound. And he said unto her, If youi weave the seven locks of my head with the web.
14And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said unto him, The P’lishtim [Immigrants] [be] upon youi, Shimshon [Like the Sun]. And he awakened out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
15And she said unto him, How can youi say, I love youi, when youri heart [is] not with me? youi have mocked me these three times, and have not told me wherein youri great strength [lies].
16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto death;
17That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There has not come a razor upon my head; for I [have been] a Nazir [One Separated] unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any [other] man.
18And when D’lilah [Feeble] saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants], saying, Come up this once, for he has showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
19And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
20And she said, The P’lishtim [Immigrants] [be] upon youi, Shimshon [Like the Sun]. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he did not know not that the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was departed from him.
21But the P’lishtim [Immigrants] took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to ‘Azah [The Strong], and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
22However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
23Then the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god has delivered Shimshon [Like the Sun] our enemy into our hand.
24And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which killed many of us.
25And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Shimshon [Like the Sun], that he may make us sport. And they called for Shimshon [Like the Sun] out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
26And Shimshon [Like the Sun] said unto the boy that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house stands, that I may lean upon them.
27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] [were] there; and [there were] upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Shimshon [Like the Sun] made sport.
28And Shimshon [Like the Sun] called unto the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, O Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER), remember me, I pray youi, and strengthen me, I pray youi, only this once, O God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], that I may be at once avenged of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] for my two eyes.
29And Shimshon [Like the Sun] 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.
30And Shimshon [Like the Sun] said, Let me die with the P’lishtim [Immigrants]. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] in it. So the dead which he killed at his death were more than [they] which he killed in his life.
31Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought [him] up, and buried him between Tzor’ah [Hornet] and Eshta’ol [Entreaty] in the burying place of Manoach [Rest] his father. And he judged Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] twenty years.
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