Judges 16:22–31

22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again ||after he was shaven.

23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto sDagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. 24 And when the people saw him, they tpraised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, †which slew many of us. 25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were umerry, 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. 26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. 27 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. 28 And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, wremember 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. 29 And Samson xtook hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and ||on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. 30 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 therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. 31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him ybetween Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. *And zhe judged Israel twenty years.