Holy Scripture
Judges 16:2
A church father on this verse
“When the men of Gaza knew this they did not dissemble or pass it over, but beset his lodging in haste, and guarded all the doors of the house that he might not escape by night.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither: and they compassed him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and they were quiet all the night, saying, Let us wait till the dawn appear, and we will slay him.
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In context
1And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
— Judges 16:2 —
3And Samson slept till midnight, and rose up at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron, and laid them there.
4And it came to pass after this that he loved a woman in Al-sorek, and her name was Delilah.