For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.
Judges 16:3 - Revised Standard Version But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But Samson lay until midnight, and [then] he arose and took hold of the doors of the city's gate and the two posts, and pulling them up, bar and all, he put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron. American Standard Version (1901) And Samson lay till 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 upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron. Common English Bible But Samson slept only half the night. He got up in the middle of the night, grabbed the doors of the city gate and the two gateposts, and pulled them up with the bar still across them. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the hill that is beside Hebron. Catholic Public Domain Version But Samson slept until the middle of the night, and rising up from there, he took both doors from the gate, with their posts and bars. And laying them upon his shoulders, he carried them to the top of the hill that looks toward Hebron. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But Samson slept till midnight: and then rising he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts thereof, and the bolt, and laying them on his shoulders carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh towards Hebron. |
For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.
He who opens the breach 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.
But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here,” and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”
After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.