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Judges 16 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - And Sampson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Sampson is come hither: and they compassed him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and they were quiet all the night, saying, Let us wait till the dawn appear, and we will slay him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:3 - And Sampson slept till midnight, and rose up at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Chebron, and laid them there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:4 - And it came to pass after this that he loved a woman in [fn]Alsorech, and her name was Dalida.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - And the princes of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see wherein his great strength is, and wherewith we shall prevail against him, and bind him to humble him; and we will give thee [fn]each eleven hundred pieces of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - And Dalida said to Sampson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein is thy great strength, and wherewith thou shalt be bound that thou mayest be humbled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Sampson said to her, If they bind me with seven moist cords that have not been spoiled, then shall I be weak and be as one of ordinary men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - And the princes of the Philistines brought to her seven moist cords that had not been spoiled, and she bound him with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - And the [fn]liers in wait remained with her in the chamber; and she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he broke the cords as if any one should break a thread of tow when it has [fn]touched the fire, and his strength was not known.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast cheated me, and told me lies; now then tell me wherewith thou shalt be bound.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - And he said to her, If they should bind me fast with new ropes with which work has not been done, then shall I be weak, and shall be as another man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - And Dalida took new ropes, and bound him with them, and the liers in wait came out of the chamber, and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he broke them off his arms like a thread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - And Dalida said to Sampson, Behold, thou hast deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I intreat thee, wherewith thou mayest be bound: and he said to her, If thou shouldest weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and shouldest fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 - And Dalida said to Sampson, How sayest thou, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? this third time thou hast deceived me, and hast not told me wherein is thy great strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:16 - And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - Then he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come upon my head, because I have been a holy one of God from my mother's womb; if then I should be shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I shall be weak, and I shall be as all other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:18 - And Dalida saw that he told her all his heart, and she sent and called the princes of the Philistines, saying, Come up yet this once; for he has told me all his heart. And the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her, and brought the money in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:19 - And Dalida made Sampson sleep upon her knees; and she called a man, and he shaved the seven locks of his head, and she began to [fn]humble him, and his strength departed from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - And Dalida said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - And the Philistines took him, and [fn]put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:22 - And the hair of his head began to grow [fn]as before it was shaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:23 - And the chiefs of the Philistines met to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to make merry; and they said, God has given into our hand our enemy Sampson.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:24 - And the people saw him, and sang praises to their god; for our god, said they, has delivered into our hand our enemy, who wasted our land, and who multiplied our slain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - And when their heart was merry, then they said, Call Sampson out of the prison-house, and let him play before us: and they called Sampson out of the prison-house, and he played before them; and they smote him with the palms of their hands, and set him between the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - And Sampson said to the young man that held his hand, Suffer me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, and I will stay myself upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - And the house was full of men and women, and there were all the chiefs of the Philistines, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women looking at the sports of Sampson.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - And Sampson wept before the Lord, and said, O Lord, my Lord, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, O God, yet this once, and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - And Sampson took hold of the two pillars of the house on which the house stood, and leaned on them, and laid hold of one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - And Sampson said, Let my life perish with the Philistines: and he [fn]bowed himself mightily; and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were in it: and the dead whom Sampson slew in his death were more than those whom he slew in his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - And his brethren and his father's house went down, and they took him; and they went up and buried him between Saraa and Esthaol in the sepulchre of his father Manoë; and he judged Israel twenty years.
BES Footnotes
Alex. the brook of Sorech.
Gr. a man.
Gr. ambush, singular.
Gr. smelt.
This word in LXX. seems generally to have the signification of “to afflict.”
Gr. cut out.
Gr. as he was shaven.
Gr. bore; some read ἔκλινεν.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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