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

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Samson said to them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

וְאַחַ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done to us? And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”

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

וְהָמֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his the hands.

וּפִלְשִׁתִּ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

And he was very thirsty, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die by thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

וְעַתָּה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Samson lay till 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 upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that is before Hebron.

וּבִשְׁתֵּ֣י (וּ) u. “and”

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

וּשְׁמָ֖הּ (וּ) u. “and”

And the lords of the Philistines came to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in what his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

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

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what thy great strength lieth, and with what thou mayest be bound to afflict thee.

וּבַמֶּ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

(Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber.) And she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the withs as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

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

Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him with them, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. (And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber.) And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.

וְהָאֹרֵ֖ב (וְ) ve. “and”

And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me in what thy great strength lieth.

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

And she said, the Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he knew not that the LORD had departed from him.

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

Then the lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

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

And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country; who slew many of us.

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

And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

וִישַֽׂחֶק־ (וִ) vi. “so”

And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars upon which the house standeth, that I may lean upon 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 upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld 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 called to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

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

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was supported, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

וְאֶחָ֥ד (וְ) ve. “and”

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then his brethren 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. And he judged Israel twenty years.

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

And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

וּשְׁמ֥וֹ (וּ) u. “and”