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Judges 16:29

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Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.

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Judges 16:29 in other translations

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and leaned upon them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

Judges 16:29 · American Standard Version

Judges 16:29 in context

  1. 27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
  2. 28Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
  3. 29Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.
  4. 30Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
  5. 31Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.