she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,

“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”