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So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.

Then Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." He strained with all his might; and the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So those he killed at his death were more than those he had killed during his life.

Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.

He said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and even spoke it in my hearing,—that silver is in my possession; I took it; but now I will return it to you." And his mother said, "May my son be blessed by the Lord !"

Then he returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, "I consecrate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make an idol of cast metal."

So when he returned the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into an idol of cast metal; and it was in the house of Micah.

This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.

This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to live wherever he could find a place. He came to the house of Micah in the hill country of Ephraim to carry on his work.

The Levite agreed to stay with the man; and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

So Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

He said to them, "Micah did such and such for me, and he hired me, and I have become his priest."

Then the Danites went their way. When Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.

Then the Danites set up the idol for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the time the land went into captivity.

But his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.

Then her husband set out after her, to speak tenderly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. When he reached her father's house, the girl's father saw him and came with joy to meet him.

His father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days; so they ate and drank, and he stayed there.

On the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and he prepared to go; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Fortify yourself with a bit of food, and after that you may go."

When the man got up to go, his father-in-law kept urging him until he spent the night there again.