M i g h t y S a m s o n 32 A Philistine Ruler: What is your complaint? Gaza Representative: One day, Samson came to Gaza where he went in to a prostitute’s house and spent the night with her. The news spread that Samson was there. The people of Gaza gathered and lay in wait for him all night at the closed city gate intending to kill him at dawn. But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron. A Philistine Ruler: Then? Gaza Representative: Samson is a libertine who violated many women. He must be killed. A Philistine Ruler: We had ruled before that Samson was to be bound with bronze shackles and to be set to grind
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