²² And of Dan he said,

The Danites Settle in Laish

²⁷ The Danites, having taken what Micah had made and the priest who belonged to him, came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, put them to the sword, and burned down the city.^(A)

⁴⁷ When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, the Danites went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and putting it to the sword, they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem Dan, after their ancestor Dan.^(A)

³⁵ Of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand six hundred equipped for battle.

³⁰ Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” He strained with all his might, and the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So those he killed at his death were more than those he had killed during his life.

¹⁵ Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.^(A)

⁸ He struck them down hip and thigh with a massive defeat, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

¹⁹ Then the spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men of the town, took their spoil, and gave the festal garments to those who had explained the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.^(A)

⁶ The spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he tore the lion apart barehanded as one might tear apart a kid. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.^(A)

²⁴ The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the Lord blessed him.^{(A) 25} The spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.^(B)