Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her. Jos 15:47Gen 38:16-18Ezr 9:1-2Gen 10:19 The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.” Psa 118:10-121Sa 23:26Act 9:241Sa 19:112Co 11:32-33Act 23:15Jdg 15:18Mat 21:38 Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron. Act 2:24Psa 107:16Isa 63:1-5Mic 2:13
It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. Pro 22:141Co 10:6Pro 23:271Ki 11:1Neh 13:26Pro 26:11Pro 27:22 The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” Jdg 14:15Jos 13:31Ti 6:9-101Co 6:15-181Sa 29:6Gen 33:16Jdg 17:2Jdg 3:3
Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.” Mic 7:2Psa 12:2Jer 9:2-5Mic 7:5Pro 22:14Pro 26:28Pro 6:26Pro 7:21
Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.” Col 3:9Gal 6:7Pro 12:191Sa 19:171Sa 21:2-31Sa 27:10Jdg 16:10Pro 17:7
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Ecc 7:26 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known. Psa 58:9
Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.” Ezk 33:31Jdg 16:13Luk 22:48Pro 24:28Jdg 16:15-17Jdg 16:7Pro 23:7-8
He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then I will become weak, and be as another man.” Eph 4:25Pro 13:3Pro 29:25Jdg 15:13Pro 13:5
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.”
He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”
She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric. Ezr 9:13-14Psa 106:43
She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” Jdg 14:161Jn 2:15-16Jhn 15:10Pro 23:262Co 5:14-15Jhn 14:15Pro 5:3-14Sng 8:6-7
When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. Pro 7:21-23Luk 18:5Job 21:4Jon 4:9Luk 11:8Mrk 14:24Pro 7:26-27 He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.” Mic 7:5Jdg 13:5Pro 12:23Num 6:5Act 18:18Num 6:2Pro 29:12
When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. 1Ti 6:10Mat 26:15Jdg 16:5Jer 9:4-61Ki 21:20Eph 5:5Num 22:7Pro 18:8 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. Pro 7:26-27Ecc 7:26Pro 7:21-23Pro 23:33-34 She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” Num 14:42-431Sa 16:141Sa 18:122Ch 15:2Isa 59:1-2Jos 7:121Sa 28:14-162Co 3:5
He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had departed from him. The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison. Pro 2:19Pro 14:14Exo 11:5Isa 47:2Mat 24:412Ch 33:112Ki 25:7Pro 5:22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved. Lev 26:44Psa 106:44-45Psa 107:13-14Deu 32:36
The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.” Pro 24:171Sa 5:2-51Ch 10:101Co 8:4-5Jer 2:11Job 30:9-10Mic 4:5Psa 35:15-16 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.” Dan 5:41Sa 31:9Rev 11:101Ch 10:9Dan 5:23Deu 32:27Ezk 20:14Hab 1:16
When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars; 2Sa 13:28Heb 11:36Jdg 19:6Jdg 9:27Psa 35:15-161Ki 20:12Dan 5:2-3Est 3:15 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.” Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed. Deu 22:82Sa 11:2Jos 2:8Jdg 9:51 Samson called to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.” Jer 15:15Lam 3:31-32Psa 143:12Psa 91:15Rev 6:10Psa 50:15Psa 58:10-112Ti 4:14 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left. Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life. Mat 16:25Php 2:81Th 5:2Act 21:13Mat 24:38-39Php 2:17Act 20:24Col 2:15
Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years. Jdg 15:20Jdg 13:2Jdg 13:25Jhn 19:39-42Jos 19:41