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After this fight Samson held the Philistines in contempt, and came
to Gaza, and took up his lodgings in a certain inn. When the rulers of
Gaza were informed of his coming thither, they seized upon the gates, and
placed men in ambush about them, that he might not escape without being
perceived; but Samson, who was acquainted with their contrivances against
him, arose about midnight, and ran by force upon the gates, with their
posts and beams, and the rest of their wooden furniture, and carried them
away on his shoulders, and bare them to the mountain that is over Hebron,
and there laid them down.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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