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Judges 15
¹⁷ When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
¹⁸ Then he became very thirsty, and he called to the Lord and said, "You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant, and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"
¹⁹ But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
²⁰ So he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
Judges 16
¹ Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.
² When it was told to the Gazites, saying, "Samson has come here," they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. And they kept silent all night, saying, "Let us wait until the morning light, then we will kill him."
³ Now Samson lay until midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts and pulled them up along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain which is opposite Hebron.
⁴ After this it came about that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
⁵ The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Entice him, and see where his great strength lies and how we may overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him. Then we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver."
⁶ So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you."
⁷ Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man."