Judges 16:1-6

1 One day Samson went to the Philistine town of Gaza and spent the night with a prostitute.
2 Word soon spread that Samson was there, so the men of Gaza gathered together and waited all night at the town gates. They kept quiet during the night, saying to themselves, “When the light of morning comes, we will kill him.”
3 But Samson stayed in bed only until midnight. Then he got up, took hold of the doors of the town gate, including the two posts, and lifted them up, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them all the way to the top of the hill across from Hebron.
4 Some time later Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the valley of Sorek.
5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice Samson to tell you what makes him so strong and how he can be overpowered and tied up securely. Then each of us will give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”
6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes you so strong and what it would take to tie you up securely.”

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. As in Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew lacks Word soon spread.
  • [b]. Hebrew 1,100 [shekels], about 28 pounds or 12.5 kilograms in weight.
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