Judges 16:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But Samson lay only until midnight. Then at midnight he rose up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts, pulled them up, bar and all, put them on his shoulders, and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.

Micah 2:13

The one who breaks out will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the Lord at their head.

Acts 2:24

But God raised him up, having released him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.

Judges 16:2

The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” So they circled around and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They kept quiet all night, thinking, “Let us wait until the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”

Judges 16:4

After this he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.