The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with bronze chains, and put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.

Some were living in gloom and darkness, prisoners suffering in chains,

because they had rebelled against the commands of Almighty God and had rejected his instructions.

At dawn the murderer gets up and goes out to kill the poor, and at night he steals.

The priests are like a gang of robbers who wait in ambush for someone. Even on the road to the holy place at Shechem they commit murder. And they do all this evil deliberately!

They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of the LORD, because so many had been killed in battle.