Judges 16

¹Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 15:47Gen 38:16-18Ezra 9:1-2Gen 10:19

²And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 118:10-121 Sam 23:26Acts 9:241 Sam 19:112 Cor 11:32-33Acts 23:15Judg 15:18Matt 21:38Matt 27:1

³And Samson 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 Hebron. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 2:24Ps 107:16Isa 63:1-5Mic 2:13

⁴And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 22:141 Cor 10:6Prov 23:271 Kgs 11:1Neh 13:26Prov 26:11Prov 27:22

⁵And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 13:3Judg 14:151 Tim 6:9-101 Cor 6:15-181 Sam 29:6Gen 33:16Judg 17:2Judg 3:3Matt 26:15Mic 7:3

⁶And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mic 7:2Ps 12:2Jer 9:2-5Mic 7:5Prov 22:14Prov 26:28Prov 6:26Prov 7:21

⁷And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Col 3:9Gal 6:7Prov 12:191 Sam 19:171 Sam 21:2-31 Sam 27:10Judg 16:10Prov 17:7Rom 3:8

⁸Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 7:26

⁹Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 58:9

¹⁰And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 33:31Judg 16:13Luke 22:48Prov 24:28Judg 16:15-17Judg 16:7Prov 23:7-8

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 4:25Prov 13:3Prov 29:25Judg 15:13Prov 13:5

¹²Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹³And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁴And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezra 9:13-14Ps 106:43

¹⁵And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 14:161 John 2:15-16John 15:10Prov 23:262 Cor 5:14-15John 14:15Prov 5:3-14Song 8:6-71 John 5:31 Sam 15:13-14

¹⁶And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 7:21-23Job 21:4Jonah 4:9Luke 11:8Luke 18:5Mark 14:24Prov 7:26-27

¹⁷That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mic 7:5Judg 13:5Prov 12:23Num 6:5Acts 18:18Num 6:2Prov 29:12

¹⁸And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Tim 6:10Matt 26:15Jer 9:4-6Judg 16:51 Kgs 21:20Eph 5:5Num 22:7Prov 18:8Ps 62:9

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 7:26-27Eccl 7:26Prov 7:21-23Prov 23:33-34

²⁰And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 14:42-431 Sam 16:141 Sam 18:122 Chr 15:2Isa 59:1-2Josh 7:121 Sam 28:14-162 Cor 3:5Hos 7:9Isa 42:24

²¹But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 2:19Prov 14:14Exod 11:5Isa 47:2Matt 24:412 Chr 33:112 Kgs 25:7Prov 5:22Ps 107:10-12Ps 149:8

²²Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 26:44Ps 106:44-45Ps 107:13-14Deut 32:36

²³Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 24:171 Sam 5:2-51 Chr 10:101 Cor 8:4-5Jer 2:11Job 30:9-10Mic 4:5Ps 35:15-16Rom 1:23-251 Cor 10:20

²⁴And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Dan 5:41 Sam 31:9Rev 11:101 Chr 10:9Dan 5:23Deut 32:27Ezek 20:14Hab 1:16Isa 37:20Judg 15:16

²⁵And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 13:28Heb 11:36Judg 19:6Judg 9:27Ps 35:15-161 Kgs 20:12Dan 5:2-3Esth 3:15Isa 22:13Job 30:9-10

²⁶And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁷Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 22:82 Sam 11:2Josh 2:8Judg 9:51

²⁸And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 15:15Lam 3:31-32Ps 143:12Ps 91:15Rev 6:10Ps 50:15Ps 58:10-112 Tim 4:14Jonah 2:1-2Ps 74:18-23

²⁹And Samson 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³⁰And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 16:25Phil 2:81 Thess 5:2Acts 21:13Matt 24:38-39Phil 2:17Acts 20:24Col 2:15Eccl 9:12Gen 3:15

³¹Then 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 buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 15:20John 19:39-42Judg 13:2Judg 13:25Josh 19:41