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Scenes from the life of Samson

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Scenes from the life of Samson

Judges 15: 18-19; 16: 1-3, 19-21

Samson, thirsty, receives water from the jawbone of an ass
Jud. 15: 18-19

18 And being very thirsty, he cried to the Lord, and said: Thou hast given this very great deliverance and victory into the hand of thy servant: and behold I die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands of the uncircumcised. 19 Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass and waters issued out of it.

Samson carries off the gates of Gaza
Jud. 16: 1-3

1 He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went in unto her. 2 And when the Philistines had heard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him, setting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the night in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went out. 3 But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising, he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts thereof and the bolt, and laying them on his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh towards Hebron.

Delilah shaves Samson's head
Jud. 16: 19-20

19 But she made him sleep upon her knees, and lay his head in her bosom. And she called a barber and shaved his seven locks, and began to drive him away, and thrust him from her: for immediately his strength departed from him. 20 And she said: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.

Samson in the power of the Philistines
Jud. 16: 21

21 Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in prison made him grind.

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