Judges 16:3

Modern English Version

Samson lay until midnight, then at midnight he got up. He grabbed the doors of the city gate and the two gateposts and pulled them out along with the bar. He put them on his shoulder and brought them to the top of the mountain near Hebron.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For He has broken the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron in two.

Micah 2:13

He who breaks through has gone up before them; they will break through and pass the gate and go out by it. Then their king will pass on before them, the Lord at their head.

Acts 2:24

whom God raised up by loosening the pull of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

Judges 16:2

The people of Gaza were told, “Samson has come here!” So they surrounded him and laid in wait for him all night at the city gate. They kept quiet all night, thinking, “In the morning light we will kill him.”

Judges 16:4

After this Samson loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.