H9002–/וְ–v

Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his friend. So the Philistines came up and had her and her father's house burned.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.

וְאַחַ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to m

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”

And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.

וְהָמֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.

וּפִלְשִׁתִּ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without cir

וְעַתָּה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Samson was there till the middle of the night; then he got up, and took a grip on the doors of the town, pulling them up, together with their two supports and their locks, and put them on his back and took them up to the top of the hill in front of H

וּבִשְׁתֵּ֣י (וּ) u. “and”

Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.

וּשְׁמָ֖הּ (וּ) u. “and”

And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one

וּרְאִי֙ (וּ) u. “and”וּבַמֶּה֙ (וּ) u. “and”וַאֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ (וַ) va. “and”וּמֵאָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

So Delilah said to Samson, Make clear to me now what is the secret of your great strength, and how you may be put in bands and made feeble.

וּבַמֶּ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

Now she had men waiting secretly in the inner room; and she said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And the cords were broken by him as a twist of thread is broken when touched by a flame. So the secret of his strength did not come to light.

וְהָאֹרֵ֗ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

So Delilah took new thick cords, knotting them tightly round him, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And men were waiting secretly in the inner room. And the cords were broken off his arms like threads.

וְהָאֹרֵ֖ב (וְ) ve. “and”

So while he was sleeping she got the seven twists of his hair worked into her cloth and fixed with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. Then awaking from his sleep, he got up quickly, pulling up cloth and machine together.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.

וְלִבְּךָ֖ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him.

וְאִנָּעֵ֔ר (וְ) ve. “so”וְהוּא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.

וְסַרְנֵ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְשִׂמְחָ֑ה (וּ) u. “and”

And when the people saw him, they gave praise to their god; for they said, Our god has given into our hands the one who was fighting against us, who made our country waste, and who put great numbers of us to death.

וְאֵת֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר (וַ) va. “and”

Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.

וִישַֽׂחֶק־ (וִ) vi. “so”

And Samson said to the boy who took him by the hand, Let me put my hand on the pillars supporting the house, so that I may put my back against them.

וַהֲמִשֵׁ֙נִי֙ (וַ) va. “and”וְאֶשָּׁעֵ֖ן (וְ) ve. “so”

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and about three thousand men and women were on the roof, looking on while Samson made sport.

וְהַבַּ֗יִת (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַנָּשִׁ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁ֕מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִשָּׁ֔ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And Samson, crying out to the Lord, said, O Lord God, do have me now in mind, and do make me strong only this once, O God, so that I may take one last payment from the Philistines for my two eyes.

וְחַזְּקֵ֨נִי (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִנָּקְמָ֧ה (וְ) ve. “so”

Then Samson put his arms round the two middle pillars supporting the house, putting his weight on them, on one with his right hand and on the other with his left.

וְאֶחָ֥ד (וְ) ve. “and”

And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on who

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then his brothers and his father's people came down and took him up and put his body to rest in the earth between Zorah and Eshtaol in the resting-place of Manoah his father. And he had been judge of Israel for twenty years.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבֵ֣ין (וּ) u. “and”וְה֛וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.

וּשְׁמ֥וֹ (וּ) u. “and”