25 In time Jehovah’s spirit+ started to impel him in Maʹha·neh-dan*+ between Zoʹrah+ and Eshʹta·ol.+

6 Then Jehovah’s spirit became operative upon him,+ so that he tore it in two, just as someone tears a male kid in two, and there was nothing at all in his hand. And he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

14 He, for his part, came as far as Leʹhi, and the Phi·lisʹtines, for their part, shouted exultantly at meeting him.+ And Jehovah’s spirit+ became operative upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms came to be like linen threads that have been scorched with fire,+ so that his fetters melted off his hands.

4 Now there are varieties of gifts,*+ but there is the same spirit;+