Judges 16:30 · WEB
“Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.”
— Judges 16:30
Speaker
Samson
Era
Judges (~1200 BC)
Emotion
deciding
Type
narrative
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
sacrificial deathdivine judgmentultimate victory
This verse is part of Judges 16. The full chapter reveals the story around it.
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