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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The people of Gaza were told, &#8220;Samson is here!&#8221; So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, &#8220;At dawn we&#8217;ll kill him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, &#8220;See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 28 pounds or about 13 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Samson answered her, &#8220;If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I&#8217;ll become as weak as any other man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With men hidden in the room, she called to him, &#8220;Samson, the Philistines are upon you!&#8221; But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I&#8217;ll become as weak as any other man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, &#8220;Samson, the Philistines are upon you!&#8221; But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Delilah then said to Samson, &#8220;All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.16.13"><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I&#8217;ll become as weak as any other man.&#8221; So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:13,14 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">replied, &#8220;I can if you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom.&#8221; </span><span class="fv">14 </span><span class="fqa">So she</span></span></span><span class="content"> tightened it with the pin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.16.14"><span class="content">Again she called to him, &#8220;Samson, the Philistines are upon you!&#8221; He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then she said to him, &#8220;How can you say, &#8216;I love you,&#8217; when you won&#8217;t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven&#8217;t told me the secret of your great strength.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So he told her everything. &#8220;No razor has ever been used on my head,&#8221; he said, &#8220;because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother&#8217;s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, &#8220;Come back once more; he has told me everything.&#8221; So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:19 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">and he began to weaken</span></span></span><span class="content"> And his strength left him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then she called, &#8220;Samson, the Philistines are upon you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.16.20"><span class="content">He awoke from his sleep and thought, &#8220;I&#8217;ll go out as before and shake myself free.&#8221; But he did not know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had left him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Samson</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, &#8220;Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">&#8220;Our god has delivered our enemy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">into our hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">the one who laid waste our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">and multiplied our slain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">While they were in high spirits, they shouted, &#8220;Bring out Samson to entertain us.&#8221; So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.16.25"><span class="content">When they stood him among the pillars, </span></span></div>
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