Judges 16 NKJV

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They were quiet all night, saying, “In the morning, when it is daylight, we will kill him.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Samson lay <i>low</i> till midnight; then he arose at midnight, took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two gateposts, pulled them up, bar and all, put <i>them</i> on his shoulders, and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name <i>was</i> Delilah. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength <i>lies,</i> and by what <i>means</i> we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred <i>pieces</i> of silver.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength <i>lies,</i> and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any <i>other</i> man.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, and she bound him with them. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now <i>men were</i> lying in wait, staying with her in the room. And she said to him, “The Philistines <i>are</i> upon you, Samson!” But he broke the bowstrings as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you have mocked me and told me lies. Now, please tell me what you may be bound with.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So he said to her, “If they bind me securely with new ropes <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>that have never been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any <i>other</i> man.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, “The Philistines <i>are</i> upon you, Samson!” And <i>men were</i> lying in wait, staying in the room. But he broke them off his arms like a thread.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me what you may be bound with.”</span></p><p><span class="text Judg-16-13">And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom”—</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So she wove <i>it</i> tightly with the batten of the loom, and said to him, “The Philistines <i>are</i> upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the batten and the web from the loom.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart <i>is</i> not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength <i>lies.</i>” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, <i>so</i> that his soul was <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>vexed to death, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I <i>have been</i> a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any <i>other</i> man.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>she began to torment him, and his strength left him. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And she said, “The Philistines <i>are</i> upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> had departed from him.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then the Philistines took him and <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.</span></p> <h3> Samson Dies with the Philistines</span></h3><p><span class="text Judg-16-23"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Judg-16-23">“Our god has delivered into our hands</span><br /><span class="text Judg-16-23">Samson our enemy!”</span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Judg-16-24">“Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-16-24">The destroyer of our land,</span><br /><span class="text Judg-16-24">And the one who multiplied our dead.”</span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may perform for us.” So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them. And they stationed him between the pillars. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars which support the temple, so that I can lean on them.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines <i>were</i> there—about three thousand men and women on the roof watching while Samson performed.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Samson called to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, saying, “O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span>, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one <i>blow</i> take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the other on his left. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed with <i>all his</i> might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who <i>were</i> in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And his brothers and all his father’s household came down and took him, and brought <i>him</i> up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-6961a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 16:11">Judges 16:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>with which work has never been done</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6966b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 16:16">Judges 16:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>impatient to the point of</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6969c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 16:19">Judges 16:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX <i>he began to be weak,</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6971d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Judges 16:21">Judges 16:21</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>bored out</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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