Quotes about Power
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- Judges 15:8
When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
- Judges 15:14
He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
- Judges 15:15
Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
- Judges 15:16
And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
- Judges 15:17
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
The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
- Judges 16:5
So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
- Judges 16:6
Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”
- Judges 16:7
So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.
- Judges 16:8
While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.
- Judges 16:9
He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”
- Judges 16:11