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Judges 16:1

Judges 16:1 (NIV)
One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.

Judges 16:2

Judges 16:2 (NIV)
The people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here!" So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, "At dawn we'll kill him."

Judges 16:3

Judges 16:3 (NIV)
But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

Judges 16:4

Judges 16:4 (NIV)
Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.

Judges 16:5

Judges 16:5 (NIV)
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."

Judges 16:6

Judges 16:6 (NIV)
So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."

Judges 16:28

Judges 16:28 (NIV)
Then Samson prayed to the lord, "Sovereign lord, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes."

Judges 16:29

Judges 16:29 (NIV)
Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other,

Judges 16:30

Judges 16:30 (NIV)
Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.

Judges 16:31

Judges 16:31 (NIV)
Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel twenty years.