Judges 16
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Judges 16:26-31

26Then Samson said to the boy who was holding his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.” 27Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there. And about 3,000 men and women were on the roof looking on while Samson was amusing them.

281Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord 2God, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once 3be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.” 29Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left. 30And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he bent with 4all his might so that the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed in his life. 31Then his brothers and all his father’s household came down, took him, brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. 5Thus he had judged Israel twenty years.

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Notes

  1. 1. Judges 16:28 Judg 15:18 ↩
  2. 2. Judges 16:28 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord ↩
  3. 3. Judges 16:28 Jer 15:15 ↩
  4. 4. Judges 16:30 Lit strength ↩
  5. 5. Judges 16:31 Judg 15:20 ↩

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