Judges 16
16:1And Samson went into Gaza, and saw there a woman harlot, and he entered to her.
16:2And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Samson comes here. And they encircled, and laid in wait for him the entire night at the gate of the city. And they were silent the entire night, saying, We should wait until light shows through at dawn, and we should kill him.
16:3And Samson went to bed until midnight. And he rose up at half the night, and he took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two doorposts, and carried them with the bar, and put them upon his shoulders, and bore them upon the top of the mountain which is at the face of Hebron.
16:4And it came to pass after this, that he loved a woman by the rushing stream Sorek, and her name was Delilah.
16:5And the satraps of the Philistines ascended to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see by what means his great strength is, and by what means we shall be able to prevail against him, and tie him so as to humble him. And we will give to you by man a thousand and a hundred pieces of silver.
16:6And Delilah said to Samson, Explain indeed to me by what means your great strength is! and by what means you shall be tied so as to humble you?
16:7And Samson said to her, If they should tie me with seven wet strings of a bow that are not ruined, then I will be weakened, and I will be as one of the men.
16:8And the satraps of the Philistines brought to her seven wet strings of a bow not ruined. And she tied him with them.
16:9And the ambush sat down for him in the storeroom. And she said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he tore up the strings of the bow in which manner one pulls apart yarn of hemp in its smelling of fire, and his strength was not made known.
16:10And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you misled me, and you spoke to me by lying. Now then report to me! how you shall be tied.
16:11And he said to her, If by binding, they should tie me by new ropes which were not used in work, then I shall be weak, and I will be as one of the men.
16:12And Delilah took new ropes, and tied him with them. And she said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And the ambush sat in the storeroom. And he pulled them from his arms as thread.
16:13And Delilah said to Samson, Until now you misled me, and spoke to me lying. Announce indeed to me! by what means you shall be tied. And he said to her, If you should weave the seven strands of hair of my head with the warp, and hammer with the peg into the wall, then I will be weak as one of the men.
16:14And it came to pass in his going to sleep, that Delilah took the seven strands of his head, and weaved them with the warp, and pinned them to the peg into the wall. And she said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he was awakened from his sleep, and he pulled out the pegs in the woven work from out of the wall, and the warp; for he did not know his strength.
16:15And Delilah said to him, How do you say, I love you, and your heart is not with me? This third time you misled me, and did not report to me by what means your great strength is.
16:16And it came to pass when she worked him by her words the whole night, and troubled him, so that he was faint-hearted unto death.
16:17And he reported to her all the things from his heart. And said to her, A razor shall not ascend upon my head, for I am a Nazarite of God from the belly of my mother; and if I should be shaven, my strength shall leave from me, and I shall be weakened, and I will be as all the men.
16:18And Delilah knew that he reported to her all his heart. And she sent and called the satraps of the Philistines, saying, Ascend this once! for he reported to me all his heart. And ascended up to her all the satraps of the Philistines, and they brought the silver into her hands.
16:19And she rested him between her knees. And she called the barber, and he shaved the seven curls of his head; and it began to humble him, and his strength left from him.
16:20And Delilah said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he was awakened from out of his sleep. And he said, I shall go forth, and I shall do as continually before, and I shall brush myself off. And he did not know that the lord left from him.
16:21And the Philistines took hold of him, and gouged out his eyes, and carried him unto Gaza. And they bound him with shackles of brass, and he was grinding in the house of the prison.
16:22And the hair of his head began to grow, as he was shaven.
16:23And the rulers of the Philistines came together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to be merry. And they said, Our god delivered into our hand Samson our enemy.
16:24And the people saw him, and they praised their god, for they said, Our god delivered our enemy into our hands, the one making our land quite desolate, who multiplied our slain.
16:25And it came to pass when their heart was feeling good, that they said, Call Samson from out of the house of the prison, and let him play before us! And they called Samson from out of the house of the jail, and they sported with him. And they stood him in between the two posts.
16:26And Samson said to the young man leading him by the hand, Allow me! for I should handle the monumental pillars upon of which the house stays upon them.
16:27And the house was full of the men and women, and all the satraps of the Philistines were there. And upon the roof were about three thousand men and women, looking at and mocking Samson.
16:28And Samson yelled to the lord, and said, O lord, O lord, remember me, and strengthen me indeed besides! even this once O God, and I will avenge one vengeance against the Philistines for my two eyes.
16:29And Samson took hold of the two posts in the midst upon which the house stood, and he stayed against them, one at his right hand, and one at at his left.
16:30And Samson said, Let my soul die with the Philistines. And he leaned in strength, and the house fell upon the satraps, and upon all the people in it. And the ones having died whom Samson put to death were in his death many over whom he put to death in his life.
16:31And his brothers went down, and all the house of his father, and they took him, and they ascended and entombed him between Zorah and between Esthaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.