25
And it came to pass when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson that he may make us laugh. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport, and they set him between the pillars.
26
And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Bring me near and let me feel the pillars upon which the house stands that I may lean upon them.
27
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the cardinals of the Philistines
were there, and upon the roof
there were about three thousand men and women that beheld while Samson was mocked.
28
Then Samson called unto the LORD and said, O Lord GOD, remember me now and strengthen me now only this once, O God, that I may take vengeance at once of the Philistines for my two eyes.
29
Then Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood and on which it was borne up, and leaned upon them, on the one with his right hand and on the other with his left.
30
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he pushed with
all his might, and the house fell upon the cardinals and upon all the people that
were in it. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than
those which he slew in his life.
31
Then his brethren 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 sepulchre of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.