1He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went in unto her.

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Joshua 15:47, Joshua 15:47, Ezra 9:1, Ezra 9:2, Genesis 38:16

2And when the Philistines had heard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him, setting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the night in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went out.

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1 Samuel 23:26, Psalms 118:10, Psalms 118:12, 1 Samuel 23:26, Psalms 118:10

3But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising, he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts thereof and the bolt, and laying them on his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh towards Hebron.

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Psalms 107:16, Acts 2:24, Micah 2:13, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:5

4After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.

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1 Corinthians 10:6, Proverbs 22:14, 1 Corinthians 10:6, Proverbs 22:14, 1 Kings 11:1

5And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may be able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

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Judges 14:15, Joshua 13:3, Judges 14:15, Joshua 13:3, 1 Timothy 6:9

6And Dalila said to Samson: Tell me, I beseech thee, wherein thy greatest strength lieth, and what it is, wherewith if thou wert bound, thou couldst not break loose.

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Proverbs 22:14, Proverbs 26:28, Jeremiah 9:2, Jeremiah 9:5, Proverbs 7:21

7And Samson answered her: If I shall be bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet dry, but still moist, I shall be weak like other men.

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Colossians 3:9, Romans 3:8, 1 Samuel 27:10, Judges 16:10, 1 Samuel 19:17

8And the princes of the Philistines brought unto her seven cords, such as he spoke of, with which she bound him;

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Ecclesiastes 7:26, Ecclesiastes 7:26

9Men lying privately in wait with her, and in the chamber, expecting the event of the thing, and she cried out to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the bands, as a man would break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the fire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay.

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Psalms 58:9, Psalms 58:9

10And Dalila said to him: Behold thou hast mocked me, and hast told me a false thing: but now at least tell me wherewith thou mayest be bound.

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Judges 16:13, Judges 16:13, Proverbs 24:28, Luke 22:48, Ezekiel 33:31

11And he answered her: If I shall be bound with new ropes, that were never in work, I shall be weak and like other men.

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Judges 15:13, Ephesians 4:25, Proverbs 13:3, Proverbs 29:25, Proverbs 13:5

12Dalila bound him again with these, and cried out: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson, there being an ambush prepared for him in the chamber. But he broke the bands like threads of webs.

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13And Dalila said to him again: How long dost thou deceive me, and tell me lies? Shew me wherewith thou mayest be bound. And Samson answered her: If thou plattest the seven locks of my head with a lace, and tying them round about a nail, fastenest it in the ground, I shall be weak.

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14And when Dalila had done this, she said to him: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking out of his sleep, he drew out the nail with the hairs and the lace.

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Ezra 9:13, Ezra 9:14, Psalms 106:43, Ezra 9:13, Ezra 9:14

15And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth.

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Judges 14:16, Judges 14:16, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:15

16And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even unto death.

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Proverbs 7:21, Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 7:21, Proverbs 7:23, Jonah 4:9

17Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.

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Micah 7:5, Micah 7:5, Proverbs 12:23, Judges 13:5, Proverbs 12:23

18Then seeing that he had discovered to her all his mind, she sent to the princes of the Philistines, saying: Come up this once more, for now he hath opened his heart to me. And they went up, taking with them the money which they had promised.

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Matthew 26:15, 1 Timothy 6:10, Judges 16:5, Matthew 26:15, 1 Timothy 6:10

19But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her bosom. And she called a barber and shaved his seven locks, and began to drive him away, and thrust him from her: for immediately his strength departed from him.

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Proverbs 7:21, Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 7:26, Proverbs 7:27, Proverbs 7:21

20And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And awaking from sleep, he said in his mind: I will go out as I did before, and shake myself, not knowing that the Lord was departed from him.

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Numbers 14:42, Numbers 14:43, Numbers 14:42, Numbers 14:43, 1 Samuel 16:14

21Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in prison made him grind.

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Proverbs 2:19, Proverbs 2:19, Matthew 24:41, Isaiah 47:2, Proverbs 14:14

22And now his hair began to grow again,

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Psalms 107:13, Psalms 107:14, Psalms 107:13, Psalms 107:14, Psalms 106:44

23And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.

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1 Samuel 5:2, 1 Samuel 5:5, Proverbs 24:17, 1 Samuel 5:2, 1 Samuel 5:5

24And the people also seeing this, praised their god, and said the same: Our god hath delivered our adversary into our hands, him that destroyed our country, and killed very many.

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Daniel 5:4, Daniel 5:4, 1 Samuel 31:9, Daniel 5:23, Isaiah 37:20

25And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had now taken their good cheer, they commanded that Samson should be called, and should play before them. And being brought out of prison, he played before them; and they made him stand between two pillars.

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2 Samuel 13:28, Judges 9:27, Judges 19:6, 2 Samuel 13:28, Judges 9:27

26And he said to the lad that guided his steps: Suffer me to touch the pillars which support the whole house, and let me lean upon them, and rest a little.

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27Now the house was full of men and women, and all the princes of the Philistines were there. Moreover about three thousand persons of both sexes, from the roof and the higher part of the house, were beholding Samson's play.

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Deuteronomy 22:8, Deuteronomy 22:8, 2 Samuel 11:2, Joshua 2:8, 2 Samuel 11:2

28But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, that I may revenge myself on my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes I may take one revenge.

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Lamentations 3:31, Lamentations 3:32, Jeremiah 15:15, Lamentations 3:31, Lamentations 3:32

29And laying hold on both the pillars on which the house rested, and holding the one with his right hand, and the other with his left,

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30He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life.

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Philippians 2:8, Matthew 16:25, Philippians 2:8, Matthew 16:25, Psalms 62:3

31And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.

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Judges 15:20, Judges 15:20, Judges 13:2, Judges 13:25, Judges 13:2