Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever. . . . When hard pressed, I cried to the LORD; He brought me into a spacious place.The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?The LORD is with me; He is my helper. I look in triumph over my enemies.It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in humans. I was pushed back and about to fall, but...  Read More

But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, "Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands." . . . While they were in high spirits, they shouted, "Bring out Samson to entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them...  Read More

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver." So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of ...  Read More

Then Samson said, "With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men." When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, "You have given your servant this great victory.  Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"Then G...  Read More

The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi. The people of Judah asked, "Why have you come to fight us?" "We have come to take Samson prisoner," they answered, "to do to him as he did to us." Then three thousand men from Judah went down . . . and said to Samson, "Don't you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us?  . . .  We've come to tie you up and hand you over t...  Read More

The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the LORD blessed him, and the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him . . . Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. When he returned, he said to his father and mother, "I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife."   . . . Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mothe...  Read More