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21 The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They took him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze shackles, setting him to grind grain in prison.

22 Samson’s Revenge and Death. The hair on his head began to grow back after it had been shaved off. 23 The lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon.[a] They celebrated and said, “Our god has delivered us from the hands of Samson, our enemy.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:23 Dagon: a Babylonian divinity that was taken to Phoenicia and adopted by the Philistines.