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From this day onward, Samson answered, the Philistines are to blame, not I, if I do them despite. (Judges 15, 3)
When the Philistines enquired about the author of this, they were told how Samson’s wife had been taken from him and given to one of his friends, and this was his revenge on his father-in-law. Whereupon they made their way to Thamnatha, and burned both the woman and her father alive. (Judges 15, 6)
Well, said Samson, you have had your way, but I will make you suffer for it before I have done with you; (Judges 15, 7)
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)
Our purpose, they said, is to hand thee over bound to the Philistines. Swear to me then, answered Samson, that you will not kill me yourselves. (Judges 15, 12)
For twenty years after that, while the Philistine troubles lasted, Samson was ruler of Israel. (Judges 15, 20)
The news came to the ears of the Philistines that Samson was in the town, and they cut him off from escape by posting guards at the city gate; no need to do anything while night lasted, they could kill him next morning on his way out. (Judges 16, 2)
Samson slept on till midnight; then he rose up to go. Finding the gates locked, he took them up, bar, gate-posts and all, put them on his shoulder, and carried them to the top of the hill which looks down towards Hebron. (Judges 16, 3)
So Dalila asked Samson, Tell me, what makes thee so strong? What bonds should a man use to bind thee, if he would have thee at his mercy? (Judges 16, 6)
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)
Such a cord the Philistine chiefs brought her, and she bound Samson with it; (Judges 16, 8)
