1Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
2[It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.
3Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
4It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
5The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.
6Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.
7Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
