Judges:16:23-31
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Judges:16:23 @
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 .
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Judges:16:24 @
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 .
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Judges:16:25 @
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 .
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Judges:16:26 @
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 .
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Judges:16:27 @
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 .
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Judges:16:28 @
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 .
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Judges:16:29 @
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 .
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Judges:16:30 @
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 whom he had sent destruction in his life .
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Judges:16:31 @
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 .
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