Judges 16:1-3
New Living Translation
Samson Carries Away Gaza’s Gates
16 One day Samson went to the Philistine town of Gaza and spent the night with a prostitute. 2 Word soon spread[a] that Samson was there, so the men of Gaza gathered together and waited all night at the town gates. They kept quiet during the night, saying to themselves, “When the light of morning comes, we will kill him.”
3 But Samson stayed in bed only until midnight. Then he got up, took hold of the doors of the town gate, including the two posts, and lifted them up, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them all the way to the top of the hill across from Hebron.
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- 16:2 As in Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew lacks Word soon spread.
Judges 16:1-3
Living Bible
16 One day Samson went to the Philistine city of Gaza and spent the night with a prostitute. 2 Word soon spread that he had been seen in the city, so the police were alerted and many men of the city lay in wait all night at the city gate to capture him if he tried to leave.
“In the morning,” they thought, “when there is enough light, we’ll find him and kill him.”
3 Samson stayed in bed with the girl until midnight, then went out to the city gates and lifted them, with the two gateposts, right out of the ground. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the mountain across from Hebron!
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