But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'

Now, LORD our God, rescue us from the Assyrians, so that all the nations of the world will know that you alone are God."

But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name among the nations which had seen me lead Israel out of Egypt.

and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

You acted against the Lord of heaven and brought in the cups and bowls taken from his Temple. You, your noblemen, your wives, and your concubines drank wine out of them and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone---gods that cannot see or hear and that do not know anything. But you did not honor the God who determines whether you live or die and who controls everything you do.

They even worship their nets and offer sacrifices to them, because their nets provide them with the best of everything.

The people of the earth will be happy because of the death of these two. They will celebrate and send presents to each other, because those two prophets brought much suffering upon the whole human race.

He attacked them fiercely and killed many of them. Then he went and stayed in the cave in the cliff at Etam.

So Samson sang, "With the jawbone of a donkey I killed a thousand men; With the jawbone of a donkey I piled them up in piles."