H9002–/וְ–v

Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Samson said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

וְאַחַ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”

They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

וְהָמֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

וּפִלְשִׁתִּ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

וְעַתָּה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

וּבִשְׁתֵּ֣י (וּ) u. “and”

It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

וּשְׁמָ֖הּ (וּ) u. “and”

The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven hundred [supplied: pieces] of silver.

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

Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.

וּבַמֶּ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

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

So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. The liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

וְהָאֹרֵ֖ב (וְ) ve. “and”

She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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 in which your great strength lies.

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

She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.

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

The lords of the Philistines gathered them together 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.

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

When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us.

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

It happened, 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 sport before them. They set him between the pillars:

וִישַֽׂחֶק־ (וִ) vi. “so”

and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, Allow me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on 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 there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.

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

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

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

Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

וְאֶחָ֥ד (וְ) ve. “and”

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 who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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.

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

There was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

וּשְׁמ֥וֹ (וּ) u. “and”