2 Meanwhile there happened to be a certain man of Zoʹrah+ of the family of the Danʹites,+ and his name was Ma·noʹah.+ And his wife was barren and had borne no child.+

24 Later the woman gave birth to a son and called his name Samson;+ and the boy kept getting bigger, and Jehovah continued to bless him.+

8 And he went smiting them, piling legs upon thighs with a great slaughter, after which he went down and began to dwell in a cleft of the crag Eʹtam.+

20 And he continued to judge Israel in the days of the Phi·lisʹtines twenty years.+

30 And Samson proceeded to say: “Let my soul die+ with the Phi·lisʹtines.” Then he bent himself with power, and the house went falling upon the axis lords and upon all the people that were in it,+ so that the dead that he put to death in his own death came to be more than those he had put to death during his lifetime.+