1Samson went to Gaza, and saw a prostitute there, and went in to her.

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

2The Gazites were told, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him, and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city, and were quiet all night, saying, "Wait until morning light, then we will kill him."

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

3Samson stayed in bed until midnight, and arose at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is overlooking Hebron.

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

4It came to pass afterward, that he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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

5The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you 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

6Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you can be bound and subdued."

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

7Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

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

8Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

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Ecclesiastes 7:26, Ecclesiastes 7:26

9Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

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Psalms 58:9, Psalms 58:9

10Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound."

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

11He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

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

12So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

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13Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web."

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14She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

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

15She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies."

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

16It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.

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

17He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."

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

18When 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 has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

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

19She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

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

20She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the Lord had departed from him.

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

21The Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.

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

22However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

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

23The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to celebrate; for they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand."

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

24When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand."

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

25It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may entertain us." They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

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

26and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them."

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27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.

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

28Samson called to the Lord, and said, "Lord God, please remember me, and please strengthen me only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes."

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

29Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

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30Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

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

31Then his brothers 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 burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

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