mkjv - Judges:16:23-31

mkjv@Judges:16:23 @ Then the lords of the Philistines gathered in order 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.

mkjv@Judges:16:24 @ And the people saw him and praised their god. For they said, Our god has delivered our enemy into our hand, and the destroyer of our country, who killed many of us.

mkjv@Judges:16:25 @ And when their hearts were merry, it happened that they said, Call for Samson and he will make sport for us. And they called for Samson out of the prison house. And he made sport for them, and they set him between the pillars.

mkjv@Judges:16:26 @ And Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, Allow me to feel the pillars upon which the house stands, so that I may lean upon them.

mkjv@Judges:16:27 @ Now the house was full of men and women. And all the lords of the Philistines [were] there. And on the roof were about three thousand men and women who watched while Samson made sport.

mkjv@Judges:16:28 @ And Samson called to the LORD and said, O, Lord GOD, remember me, I pray You, and strengthen me, I pray You, only this once, O God, so that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

mkjv@Judges:16:29 @ And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was held up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

mkjv@Judges:16:30 @ And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself mightily, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death [were] more than those he killed in his life.

mkjv@Judges:16:31 @ 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. And he judged Israel twenty years.