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Nevertheless the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

And 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.

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people that were therein. So the dead that he slew at his death were more than those that he slew in his life.

Then 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 burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, look, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.

And he restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I truly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you.

And when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the goldsmith, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and talismans, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

And he said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.

And they turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

And the sons of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

And the sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

And his concubine prostituted against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.

And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his attendant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they ate and drank, and lodged there.

And it came to pass on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.

And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again.