Judges 16:21 · KJV
“But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. {put out: Heb. bored out}”
— Judges 16:21
And she said, The Philistines {be} upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. {after...: or, as when he was shaven}
Judges 16 — Context
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
20And she said, The Philistines {be} upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
21But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. {put out: Heb. bored out}
22Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. {after...: or, as when he was shaven}
23Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:19
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man {shall be satisfied} from himself.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Exodus 11:5
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that {is} behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Matthew 24:41
Two {women shall be} grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Psalms 149:8
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
2 Kings 25:7
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. {put...: Heb. made blind}
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}