Judges 16:3 meaning and explanation
But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
Judges 16:3, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator tells how Samson, having spent the night in Gaza with a prostitute, escapes the ambush the Gazites planned for dawn. At midnight he grips the city gate doors and both gateposts, wrenches them out with the bar still in place, and carries them on his shoulders to the mountain facing Hebron.
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