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But Samson lay until the middle of the night; he got up in the middle of the night and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two door posts, tore them loose with the bar, put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill that is in front of[a] Hebron.

After this he fell in love with a woman in the wadi[b] of Sorek, and her name was Delilah. And the rulers of the Philistines came up to her and said, “Entice him and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we can overpower him, so that we may bind him up in order to subdue him; each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:3 Literally “on the face of”
  2. Judges 16:4 A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season