Judges:16:23-31

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* And the chiefs of the Philistines met to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon , and to make merry ; and they said , God has given into our hand our enemy Sampson . * And the people saw him , and sang praises to their god ; for our god , said they , has delivered into our hand our enemy , who wasted our land , and who multiplied our slain . * And when their heart was merry , then they said , Call Sampson out of the prison-house , and let him play before us : and they called Sampson out of the prison-house , and he played before them ; and they smote him with the palms of their hands , and set him between the pillars . * And Sampson said to the young man that held his hand , Suffer me to feel the pillars on which the house rests , and I will stay myself upon them . * And the house was full of men and woman , and there were all the chiefs of the Philistines , and on the roof were about three thousand men and woman looking at the sports of Sampson . * And Sampson wept before the Lord , and said , O Lord , my lord , remember me , I pray thee , and strengthen me , O God , yet this once , and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes . * And Sampson took hold of the two pillars of the house on which the house stood , and leaned on them , and laid hold of one with his right hand , and the other with his left . * And Sampson said , Let my life perish with the Philistines : and he (note :)Gr . bore ; some read eklinen (:note ) bowed himself mightily ; and the house fell upon the princes , and upon all the people that were in it : and the dead whom Sampson slew in his death were more than those whom he slew in his life . * And his brethren and his father ’s house went down , and they took him ; and they went up and buried him between Saraa and Esthaol in the sepulchre of his father Manoe ; and he judged Israel twenty years .

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