07:016:015 And she said unto him, How canst thou say,
I love thee, when
thine
heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three
times,
and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
07:016:016 And it came to pass, when she pressed him
daily with her
words,
and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
07:016:017 That he told her all his heart, and said
unto her, There hath
not
come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite
unto
God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven,
then my
strength
will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like
any
other man.
07:016:018 And when Delilah saw that he had told her
all his heart, she
sent
and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying,
Come
up
this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart.
Then the
lords
of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money
in
their hand.
07:016:019 And she made him sleep upon her knees;
and she called for a
man,
and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of
his
head;
and she began to afflict him, and his strength went
from
him.
07:016:020 And she said, The Philistines be 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 wist not that
the lord
was
departed from him.
07:016:021 But the Philistines took him, and put out
his eyes, and
brought
him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass;
and
he did grind in the prison house.
07:016:022 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow
again after he was
shaven.
07:016:023 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered
them together for
to
offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to
rejoice:
for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our
enemy
into our hand.
07:016:024 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, which slew many of us.
07:016:025 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.
07:016:026 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.
07:016:027 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.


