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Judges 16:22-24
New Catholic Bible
Judges 16:22-24
New Catholic Bible
22 Samson’s Revenge and Death. The hair on his head began to grow back after it had been shaved off. 23 The lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon.[a] They celebrated and said, “Our god has delivered us from the hands of Samson, our enemy.” 24 When the people saw him, they praised their god saying, “Our god has delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who laid waste to our country and killed so many of us.”
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- Judges 16:23 Dagon: a Babylonian divinity that was taken to Phoenicia and adopted by the Philistines.