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And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself.
And he wist not that the L
ORD
was departed from him.
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But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound
him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
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Howbeit the hair of his head began
to grow again after he was shaven.
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Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for
to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered
Samson our enemy into our hand.
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And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they
said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which
slew many of us.
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And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for
Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he
made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
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And Samson said unto the lad that held
him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may
lean upon them.
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Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines
were
there; and
there were
upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while
Samson made sport.
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And Samson called unto the L
ORD
, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me,
I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged
of the Philistines for my two eyes.
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And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which
the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with
his left.
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And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with
all his
might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that
were
therein. So the dead
which he slew at his death were more than
they
which he slew in his life.
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Then his brethren 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 buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
CHAPTER 17
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name
was
Micah.
2
And he said unto his mother,
The eleven hundred
shekels
of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and
spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed
be thou
of the L
ORD
, my son.
3
And when he had restored the eleven hundred
shekels
of silver to
his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the L
ORD
from my hand for my
son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
4
Yet
he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred
shekels
of silver, and gave
them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the
house of Micah.
5
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim,
and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
6
In those days
there was
no king in Israel,
but
every man did
that which was
right in his own eyes.
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