Judges 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate ¹  him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Judges 16:30

16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard ²  and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life. ³ 

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ⁴  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ⁵  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ⁶  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ⁷  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

² tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”

³ tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”

³ tn Or “went.”

⁴ tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

⁵ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

⁶ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

⁷ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.