Samson Is Avenged

28 (A)Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord [a]God, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once (B)be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.” 29 Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left. 30 And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he bent with [b]all his might so that the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed in his life.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:28 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  2. Judges 16:30 Lit strength