Judges · around about 1078 BC
Samson Carries Off Gaza's Gates
Samson Carries Off Gaza's Gates is recorded in Judges and falls around about 1078 BC. Below is what happened, where it fits, and the full text.
about 1078 BChard
What happened
Samson lifts the doors and posts of Gaza's city gate and carries them away.
Where it fits on the timeline
Samson carries off Gaza’s gates before Delilah betrays him, while he still has his strength (Judges 16:1-3; Judges 16:4-22).
The passage
Judges 16:1-3
Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her. The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.” Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
Scripture references
Judges 16:1-3
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