Bible Cross References
Gaza
Judges 16:1-21
1
And Sampson went to Gaza, and he saw a harlot there, and went in to her.
2
And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Sampson has come here. And they surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and they were quiet all the night, saying, Let us wait till the dawn appear, and we will kill him.
3
And Sampson slept till midnight, and rose up at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron, and laid them there.
4
And it came to pass after this that he loved a woman in Sorek, and her name was Delilah.
5
And the princes of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Beguile him, and see where his great strength is, and by what means we may prevail against him, and bind him to humble him; and we will give you each eleven hundred pieces of silver.
6
And Delilah said to Sampson, Tell me, wherein lies your great strength, and with what may you be bound, that you may be humbled.
7
And Sampson said to her, If they bind me with seven moist cords that have not been spoiled, then shall I be weak, and be as one of the ordinary men.
8
And the princes of the Philistines brought to her seven moist cords that had not been spoiled, and she bound him with them.
9
And the [men] lying in wait remained with her in the chamber; and she said to him, the Philistines are upon you, Sampson. And he broke the cords as if anyone should break a strand of yarn when it has touched the fire, and his strength was not known.
10
And Delilah said to Sampson, Behold, you have cheated me, and told me lies; now then, tell me what you shall be bound [with].
11
And he said to her, If they should bind me securely with new ropes with which work has not been done, then shall I be weak, and shall be as another man.
12
And Delilah took new ropes, and bound him with them, and the [men] lying in wait came out of the chamber, and she said, The Philistines are upon you, Sampson. And he broke them off his arms like a thread.
13
And Delilah said to Sampson, Behold, you have deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I intreat you, what you may be bound [with]. And he said to her, If you should weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and should fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man.
14
And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Delilah took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall. Then she said, The Philistines are upon you, Sampson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.
15
And Delilah said to Sampson, How can you say I love you, when your heart is not with me? This [is the] third time you have deceived me, and have not told me where your great strength [lies].
16
And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and pestered him, that his spirit failed almost to death.
17
Then he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come upon my head, because I have been holy to God from my mother's womb; if then I should be shaven, my strength will depart from me, and I shall be weak, and I shall be as all other men.
18
And Delilah saw that he told her all his heart, and she sent and called the princes of the Philistines, saying, Come up yet this once; for he has told me all his heart. And the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her, and brought the money in their hands.
19
And Delilah made Sampson sleep upon her knees. And she called a man, and he shaved the seven locks of his head, and she began to humble him, and his strength departed from him.
20
And Delilah said, The Philistines are upon you, Sampson. And he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord had departed from him.
21
And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he became a grinder in the prison house.
Jeremiah 47:1
Thus says the Lord against the Philistines:
Jeremiah 47:5
Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cast away, and the remnant of the Enakim.
Amos 1:6
Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut [them] up into Edom.
Amos 1:7
And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour its foundations.
Zephaniah 2:4
For Gaza shall be utterly forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall be cast forth at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Acts 8:26
Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Get up and go toward the south on the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is desolate.
the river
Joshua 15:4
And [from there] they go out to Azmon, and issue at the valley of Egypt; and the termination of its boundaries shall be at the sea. These are their boundaries southward.
Joshua 13:3
from the wilderness before Egypt, as far as the borders of Ekron on the left of the Canaanites; [the land] is reckoned to the five principalities of the Philistines, to the inhabitants of Gaza, and of Azotus, and of Ashkelon, and of Gath, and of Ekron, and to the Hivite;
Exodus 23:31
And I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from you.
Numbers 34:5
And the border shall compass from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and the sea shall be the boundary.
Numbers 34:6
And you shall have your border on the west, the great sea shall be the boundary; this shall be to you the border on the west.