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And now that Samson’s father had reached the home of his daughter-in-law, he gave a feast in Samson’s honour; for still the young men would be at their feasting; (Judges 14, 10)
To these, Samson proposed that he should ask them a riddle; if they could answer it within seven days, while the feasting lasted, he would give each of them a linen shirt and a new garment; (Judges 14, 12)
Then the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ascalon and there slew thirty men, whose clothes he stripped off and gave to the answerers of his riddle. So, in high displeasure, he went back to his father’s house, (Judges 14, 19)
and when the men of Juda asked on what errand they came, they said they had come to make Samson prisoner, and take vengeance on him for all the ill he had done them. (Judges 15, 10)
So three thousand men of Juda went to the cave on the Rock of Etam; What are these wild doings of thine? they asked Samson. Dost thou not know that the Philistines have the upper hand of us? Nay, said he, I did but serve them as they served me first. (Judges 15, 11)
No weapon had he, but he found a bone lying there, an ass’s jaw-bone; took that instead, and killed a thousand men with it. (Judges 15, 15)
With the bone of an ass, he cried, I have made bones of them; with the bone of an ass a thousand men lie slain.✻ (Judges 15, 16)
But now he was thirsty, and made his complaint to the Lord, Here is a servant of thine, whom thou hast used to win a great victory, a great deliverance, and dying of thirst! Wilt thou leave me, after all, at the mercy of men uncircumcised? (Judges 15, 18)
Bind me with seven strands of gut, still fresh and undried, Samson told her, and I shall be no stronger than other men. (Judges 16, 7)
So once more Dalila bound him, once more she cried, Samson, the Philistines! And the men hidden in the inner room saw him break his bonds like a thread. (Judges 16, 12)
Thus did she torment him, plying him with questions day after day, and giving him no peace, till at last she crushed his spirit altogether, and made life a burden to him; (Judges 16, 16)
and at last he told her the truth. I am a Nazirite, he said; that is to say, I am consecrated to God from birth, and this hair of mine has never felt the touch of steel. If my hair were cut, my strength would leave me; I should lose it all, and become like other men. (Judges 16, 17)
