 Following are some of the memorable verses.in this Book.
This book presents the history of the six servitudes of Israel and
the deliverances of the land through fifteen judges.
5:31 So let all your enemies perish, Lord: but let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. The land had rest forty years.
8:23 Gideon said, I will not rule over you and neither shall my son rule over you, but the Lord shall rule over you.
13:5 For, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
16:1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in to her.
16:2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson has come hither. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.
16:3 Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
16:4 afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
16:5 the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give you everyone of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
16:6 Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and wherewith you might be bound to afflict you.
16:7 Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords+ that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords+ which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
16:9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. She said to him, The Philistines be on you, Samson. He broke the ropes+, as a thread of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
16:10 Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray you, wherewith you might be bound.
16:11 He said to her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
16:12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines be on you, Samson. There were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. He broke them from off his arms like a thread.
16:13 Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.
16:14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines be on you, Samson. He awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
16:15 She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me wherein your great strength lies.
16:16 When she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;
16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said to her, There has not come a razor on mine head; for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought money in their hand.
16:19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
16:20 She said, The Philistines be on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. He did not know that the Lord was departed from him.
16:21 The Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with shackles of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
16:22 The hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
16:24 When the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which killed many of us.
16:25 When their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. They called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
16:26 Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars where the house stands, that I may lean on them.
16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
16:28 Samson called to the Lord, and said, Lord God, remember me, I pray you, and strengthen me, I pray you, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
16:29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house stood, and on which it was held+ up, of one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
16:30 Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people that were therein. So the dead which he killed at his death were more than they which he killed in his life.
16:31 Then his brothers 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 burying place of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
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