The Koine Bible

And Samson went from there to Gaza, and he saw there a woman, a harlot, and he went in to her.

And it was reported to the Gazaites, saying, Samson has come here; and they surrounded and lay in wait for him all the night at the gate of the city, and they kept silent all the night, saying, Until daylight in the morning let us remain, and let us kill him.

And Samson slept until midnight, and he rose about midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and of the two posts, and lifted them up together with the bar, and put them on his shoulder, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron, and set them there

And after these things it came to pass that he also loved a woman by the brook Sorech, and her name was Dalila.

And the satraps of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, Deceive him, and see in what his great strength is, and in what way we shall be able against him and bind him so as to humble him, and we will give you each a thousand and one hundred of silver.

And Delila said to Samson, Declare to me in what your great strength is and in what you will be bound, so as to humble you.

And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings, not dried up, then I shall be weak and shall be like one of the men.

And the satraps of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh, unstripped bowstrings, and she bound him with them

And his ambush sat in the inner room, and she said to him, Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he tore the cords apart as a thread of what is snapped apart in the smelling of fire, and his strength was not known.

And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have deceived me and spoken falsehoods to me; now therefore, tell me, please, by what you will be bound.

And he said to her, If they bind me with seven new cords, in which no work has been done, then I will be weak and will be as one of the men.

And Delilah took new cords for him and bound him with them and said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson; and the ambush was sitting in the inner room, and he tore them from his arms like a thread.

And Delilah said to Samson, Until now you have deceived me and have spoken falsehoods to me; tell me now in what you will be bound. And he said to her, If you weave the seven braids of my head with the web and fasten it with the peg into the wall, then I shall be weak like one of the men.

And Delila lulled him to sleep and fastened the seven locks of his head with the loom and drove it with the pegs into the wall, and the Philistines said to him, Samson, upon you! And he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pegs together with the web from the wall and the loom, and his strength was not known

And Delilah said to him, How do you say, I have loved you, and your heart is not with me? This third time you have deceived me, and you have not told me in what your great strength is.

And it came to pass, when she had worn him down with her words all the night and had pressed him hard, and his soul was faint unto death,

And he told her all that was in his heart and said to her, A razor has not come upon my head, for I am a Nazirite of God from my mother’s womb, and if I am shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I will become weak and will be like all men.

And Delilah saw that he had told her all that was in his heart, and she sent and called all the satraps of the Philistines, saying, Go up once, for he has told me all his heart. And all the satrapies of the Philistines went up to her, and they brought the silver in their hands.

And she lulled him to sleep between her knees, and she called the barber, and he shaved the seven locks of his head, and he began to be humbled, and his strength departed from him

And Delilah said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he awoke from his sleep and said, I will go out and do as always and shake myself off. And he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.

And the foreigners seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters, and he was grinding in the house of the prison.

And the hair of his head began to grow again when he was shaved

And the satraps of the Philistines were gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, Our god has handed over Samson our enemy into our hand

And the people saw him and praised their gods and said, Our God has delivered our enemy into our hand, and the one laying waste our land, who multiplied our wounded.

And it came to pass, when their heart was merry, that they said, Call Samson out of the prison house, and let him play before us. And they called Samson out of the prison house, and they made sport of him, and they set him between the two pillars.

And Samson said to the little boy leading him by the hand, Let me rest, please, and make me feel the pillars on which the house is supported, upon them, and I will lean on them. And the boy did so.

Now the house was full of men and women, and there all the satraps of the foreigners, and on the roof about three thousand men and women, looking at Samson being mocked.

And Samson cried out to the Lord and said, Lord, Lord, remember me and strengthen me now, only this once yet, and I will avenge one vengeance for my two eyes from the Philistines.

And Samson embraced the two middle pillars on which the house was supported, and he leaned upon them, one with his right hand and one with his left hand.

And Samson said, Let my soul die with the Philistines. And he leaned with strength, and the house fell upon the satraps and upon all the people who were in it. And the dead whom Samson killed at his death were more than those whom he killed in his life.

And his brothers and all the house of his father went down and took him and went up and buried him between Saraa and between Esthaol in the tomb of Manoe his father; and he judged Israel twenty years.