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Judges 16:1
Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
Judges 16:1 · World English Bible
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Judges 16:1 in other translations
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
Samson went to Gaza, and saw a prostitute there, and went in to her.
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In context
1 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
2 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.”
3 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.
4 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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