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Judges 16:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Judges 16:3

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1 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

2 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.”

3 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.

4 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

5 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.”

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Judges 16:1

"Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her."

Judges 16:2

"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.”"

Judges 16:4

"It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah."

Judges 16:5

"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.”"

Judges 16:6

"Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”"

Judges 16:7

"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.”"

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