Judges 16
1 and to go: went Samson Gaza [to] and to see: see there woman to fornicate and to come (in): marry to(wards) her
One day Samson went to Gaza [city in the Philistia area]. He spent some time with a prostitute.
2 to/for Gaza to/for to say to come (in): come Samson here/thus and to turn: surround and to ambush to/for him all [the] night in/on/with gate [the] city and be quiet all [the] night to/for to say till light [the] morning and to kill him
People soon found out that Samson was there, so the men of Gaza gathered together at the city gate and waited all night. They said to themselves, “When it dawns tomorrow morning, we will kill him [when he tries to leave the city].”
3 and to lie down: sleep Samson till half [the] night and to arise: rise in/on/with half [the] night and to grasp in/on/with door gate [the] city and in/on/with two [the] doorpost and to set out them with [the] bar and to set: put upon shoulder his and to ascend: establish them to(wards) head: top [the] mountain: mount which upon face: before Hebron
But Samson did not stay there all night. At midnight, he got up. He went to the city gate, he took hold of its two posts, and he lifted it up out of the ground, with its [connecting cross] bar still attached. He put it on his shoulders and carried it [many miles] uphill to Hebron.
4 and to be after so and to love: lover woman in/on/with (Sorek) Valley (Valley of) Sorek and name her Delilah
Later Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, [and started to live with her]. She lived in Sorek Valley [in the Philistia area].
5 and to ascend: rise to(wards) her lord Philistine and to say to/for her to entice [obj] him and to see: see in/on/with what? strength his great: large and in/on/with what? be able to/for him and to bind him to/for to afflict him and we to give: give to/for you man: anyone thousand and hundred silver: money
The Philistine leaders went to her and said, “Find out from Samson what makes him so strong. And find out how we can subdue him and tie him up securely. If you do that, each of us will give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”
6 and to say Delilah to(wards) Samson to tell [emph?] please to/for me in/on/with what? strength your great: large and in/on/with what? to bind to/for to afflict you
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes you so strong, and tell me how someone can subdue you and tie you up.”
7 and to say to(wards) her Samson if to bind me in/on/with seven cord fresh which not to dry and be weak: weak and to be like/as one [the] man
Samson said, “If someone ties me with seven new bowstrings, ones that are not dry yet, I will become as weak as other men.”
8 and to ascend: establish to/for her lord Philistine seven cord fresh which not to dry and to bind him in/on/with them
So [after Delilah told that to the Philistine leaders], they brought seven new bowstrings to Delilah.
9 and [the] to ambush to dwell to/for her in/on/with chamber and to say to(wards) him Philistine upon you Samson and to tear [obj] [the] cord like/as as which to tear cord [the] tow in/on/with to smell he fire and not to know strength his
Then she hid the men in one of the rooms in her house. Then [while Samson was sleeping], she tied him up with the bowstrings. Then she called out, “Samson! The Philistines have come here to capture you!” But Samson snapped the bowstrings as easily as though they were strings that had been singed in a fire. So the Philistines did not find out what made Samson so strong.
10 and to say Delilah to(wards) Samson behold to deceive in/on/with me and to speak: speak to(wards) me lie now to tell [emph?] please to/for me in/on/with what? to bind
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have deceived me and lied to me! Now tell me [the truth, ] how someone can tie you up securely.”
11 and to say to(wards) her if to bind to bind me in/on/with cord new which not to make: do in/on/with them work and be weak: weak and to be like/as one [the] man
Samson replied, “If someone ties me with new ropes, ones that have never been used, I will be as weak as other men.”
12 and to take: take Delilah cord new and to bind him in/on/with them and to say to(wards) him Philistine upon you Samson and [the] to ambush to dwell in/on/with chamber and to tear them from upon arm his like/as thread
So again, [she told the Philistine leaders, and] they [came and] hid in the room as they had done before. And again, while Samson was sleeping, she took the new ropes and tied him up with them. Then she called out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they were threads.
13 and to say Delilah to(wards) Samson till here/thus to deceive in/on/with me and to speak: speak to(wards) me lie to tell [emph?] to/for me in/on/with what? to bind and to say to(wards) her if to weave [obj] seven lock head my with [the] weave (and to blow in/on/with peg to(wards) [the] wall and be weak: weak and to be like/as one [the] man *X*)
Then Delilah said, “You have deceived me and lied to me [again]! Please tell me how someone can tie you up securely!” Samson replied, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair into the threads you are weaving on the loom, and then fasten those threads with the pin [that makes the threads tight], then I will be as weak as other men.” So again, while Samson was sleeping on her lap, Delilah held the seven braids of his hair, and wove them into the threads on the loom,
14 (and to sleep him and to weave [obj] seven lock head his with [the] weave *X*) and to blow in/on/with peg and to say to(wards) him Philistine upon you Samson and to awake from sleep his and to set out [obj] [the] peg [the] shuttle and [obj] [the] weave
and she tightened them with the pin. Then she called out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson woke up and pulled out the pin, and pulled his hair from the threads on the loom.
15 and to say to(wards) him how? to say to love: lover you and heart your nothing with me this three beat to deceive in/on/with me and not to tell to/for me in/on/with what? strength your great: large
Then Delilah said to him, “How can you say that you love me when you do not tell me the truth about yourself? You have deceived me three times, and you still have not told me what really makes you so strong!”
16 and to be for to press to/for him in/on/with word her all [the] day: daily and to urge him and be short soul his to/for to die
Day after day she nagged him like that. He thought he would die from her nagging [IDM].
17 and to tell to/for her [obj] all heart his and to say to/for her razor not to ascend: rise upon head my for Nazirite God I from belly: womb mother my if to shave and to turn aside: depart from me strength my and be weak: weak and to be like/as all [the] man
Finally Samson told her the truth. He said, “I have been set apart for God since the day I was born. And because of that, my hair has never been cut. If my hair were shaved off, my strength would be gone, and I would be as weak as other men.”
18 and to see: see (Delilah *LA(bh)*) for to tell to/for her [obj] all heart his and to send: depart and to call: call to to/for lord Philistine to/for to say to ascend: rise [the] beat for to tell (to/for me *Q(K)*) [obj] all heart his and to ascend: rise to(wards) her lord Philistine and to ascend: establish [the] silver: money in/on/with hand their
Delilah realized that this time he had told her the truth. So she summoned the Philistine leaders again, saying, “Come back one more time, because Samson has really told me everything [about why he is so strong]”. So the Philistine leaders returned and brought to Delilah the money [that they promised to give her].
19 and to sleep him upon knee her and to call: call to to/for man and to shave [obj] seven lock head his and to profane/begin: begin to/for to afflict him and to turn aside: depart strength his from upon him
Again she lulled Samson to sleep, with his head in her lap. Then she called one of the Philistine men to come and shave off Samson’s hair. As he did that, Samson began to get weaker. And finally his strength was all gone.
20 and to say Philistine upon you Samson and to awake from sleep his and to say to come out: come like/as beat in/on/with beat and to shake and he/she/it not to know for LORD to turn aside: depart from upon him
Then [after she tied him up], she called out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” He woke up and thought, “I will do as I did before. I will shake [these ropes] off myself and be free!” But he did not realize that Yahweh had left him.
21 and to grasp him Philistine and to dig [obj] eye his and to go down [obj] him Gaza [to] and to bind him in/on/with bronze and to be to grind in/on/with house: home ([the] to bind *Q(K)*)
So the Philistine men seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they took him to Gaza. There they put him in prison and bound him with bronze chains. They made him [turn a millstone to] grind grain [every day].
22 and to profane/begin: begin hair head his to/for to spring like/as as which to shave
But his hair started to grow again.
23 and lord Philistine to gather to/for to sacrifice sacrifice great: large to/for Dagon God their and to/for joy and to say to give: give God our in/on/with hand: power our [obj] Samson enemy our
[Several months later] the Philistine leaders celebrated a big festival. During the festival they offered sacrifices to their god Dagon. They praised him, saying, “Our god has enabled us to defeat our great enemy Samson!”
24 and to see: see [obj] him [the] people and to boast: praise [obj] God their for to say to give: give God our in/on/with hand: power our [obj] enemy our and [obj] to destroy land: country/planet our and which to multiply [obj] slain: killed our
And when the other people saw Samson, they also praised their god Dagon, saying, “Samson ruined our crops and killed many of our people, but our god has put our enemy into our hands. Our god helped us to capture the one who has killed so many of us!”
25 and to be (for like/as be pleasing *Q(K)*) heart their and to say to call: call to to/for Samson and to laugh to/for us and to call: call to to/for Samson from house: home ([the] to bind *Q(K)*) and to laugh to/for face: before their and to stand: stand [obj] him between [the] pillar
By that time the people were half-drunk. They shouted, “Bring Samson out of the prison! Bring him here so that he can entertain us!” So they brought Samson from the prison and made fun of him. Then they made him stand in the center of the temple. They made him stand between the two pillars that held up the roof.
26 and to say Samson to(wards) [the] youth [the] to strengthen: hold in/on/with hand his to rest [emph?] [obj] me (and to feel me *Q(K)*) [obj] [the] pillar which [the] house: home to establish: establish upon them and to lean upon them
Samson said to the servant who was leading him by his hand, “Place my hands against the two pillars. I want to rest against them.”
27 and [the] house: home to fill [the] human and [the] woman and there [to] all lord Philistine and upon [the] roof like/as three thousand man and woman [the] to see: see in/on/with to laugh Samson
At that time the temple was full of men and women. All the Philistine leaders were also there. And there were about 3,000 people on the roof, watching Samson and making fun of him.
28 and to call: call to Samson to(wards) LORD and to say Lord YHWH/God to remember me please and to strengthen: strengthen me please surely [the] beat [the] this [the] God and to avenge vengeance one from two eye my from Philistine
Then Samson prayed, saying, “Yahweh, my Lord, think about me again! Please give me strength one more time, so that I may get revenge on the Philistines for gouging out my eyes!”
29 and to twist Samson [obj] two pillar [the] midst which [the] house: home to establish: establish upon them and to support upon them one in/on/with right his and one in/on/with left his
Then Samson put his hands on the two center pillars of the temple. He put his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other pillar.
30 and to say Samson to die soul: myself my with Philistine and to stretch in/on/with strength and to fall: fall [the] house: home upon [the] lord and upon all [the] people which in/on/with him and to be [the] to die which to die in/on/with death his many from whence to die in/on/with life his
Then he shouted [to God], “Let me die with the Philistines!”, and he pushed with all his strength. [The pillars collapsed], and the temple crashed down on the Philistine leaders and all the other Philistine people, [and they all died]. So Samson killed more people when he died than he had killed all during his life.
31 and to go down brother: male-sibling his and all house: household father his and to lift: raise [obj] him and to ascend: establish and to bury [obj] him between Zorah and between Eshtaol in/on/with grave Manoah father his and he/she/it to judge [obj] Israel twenty year
Later his brothers and their relatives went down [from Zorah to Gaza] to get his body. They took it back home and buried it between Zorah and Eshtaol, at the place where Samson’s father Manoah was buried. Samson had been Israel’s leader for 20 years.
