The Koine Bible

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

And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Samson has come here, and they surrounded and lay in wait against him all the night at the gate of the city, and they were silent all the night, saying, Until the dawn breaks and the morning, and let us kill him.

And Samson slept until midnight, and he arose at the middle of the night and seized the doors of the city gate, with the two posts, and he carried them up with the bar and put them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron, and he put them there

And it came to pass after this, and he loved a woman in Alsōrech, and her name was Dalida.

And the rulers of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, Deceive him and see in what his great strength is and in what we may prevail against him and bind him, to humble him; and we will give you one thousand and one hundred silver pieces.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me now, in what is your great strength, and in what you may be bound so as to humble you?

And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven fresh cords not yet dried, then I shall become weak and shall be as one of the men.

And the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings, not worn out, and she bound him with them

And the ambush for her sat in the inner room, and the Philistines said to him: On you, Samson! And he snapped the cords apart, as if anyone should pull apart a thread of tow when it smells fire, and his strength was not known.

And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have deceived me and spoken false things to me; now then, tell me in what you will be bound.

And he said to her, If binding they bind me with new ropes with which there has not been work in them, then I shall weaken and shall be as one of the men.

And Delilah took new cords and bound him with them, and the ambush came out from the inner room, and she said, Philistines upon you, Samson. And he broke them apart from his arms like a thread.

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

And it came to pass, while he was sleeping, that Dalida took the seven braids of his head and wove them in the fabric and fastened them with the peg into the wall, and she said, Philistines upon you, Samson. And he awoke from his sleep and pulled up the peg of the fabric from the wall.

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

And it came to pass, when she pressed him with her words all the days and distressed him and made him faint-hearted until dying

And he told her all his heart and said to her, A razor has never come upon my head, because I am a holy one of God from my mother’s womb; if then I am shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I will become weak and be like all men.

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

And Dalila lulled Samson to sleep upon her knees, and she called a man, and he shaved the seven braids of his head, and began to humble him, and his strength departed from him.

And Delilah said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he woke from his sleep and said, I will go out as once and once and shake myself loose. And he did not know that the Lord had departed from above him.

And the Philistines seized him and cut out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze fetters, and he was grinding in the house of the prison

And the hair of his head began to grow as it had been shaven off.

And the lords of the Philistines gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to make merry, and they said, Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand

And when the people saw him, they praised their god, because our God has given our enemy into our hand, the one who was laying waste our land and who multiplied our wounded.

And when their heart was made merry, they said, Call Samson out of the house of the prison, and let him play before us. And they called Samson from the house of bondage, and he played before them, and they were striking him, and they set him between the pillars.

And Samson said to the young man holding his hand, Let me go, and let me feel the pillars on which the house stands upon them, and I will lean on them

And the house was full of the men and the women, and there were all the rulers of the Philistines there, and on the roof about seven hundred men and women, the ones watching Samson in his sport.

And Samson wept to the Lord and said, Lord Adonai, remember me now, and strengthen me yet this once, O God, and I will repay one repayment for my two eyes to the Philistines

And Samson grasped the two pillars of the house, on which the house had stood and was supported, and he braced himself against them, and took hold of one with his right hand and one with his left hand

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

And his brothers and his father’s house went down and took him and went up and buried him between Zorah and between Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoe his father; and he judged Israel twenty years.