Gen Z: Judges 16
1So Samson pulled up to Gaza, saw a baddie, and was like, "Bet."
2The Gazites heard he was in town and were like, "Yo, let's trap him all night at the city gate, then pop off in the morning."
3Samson chilled till midnight, then got up and straight-up took the city gates and posts, threw them on his back, and hiked them up a hill.
4Later on, he fell for this girl in the Sorek Valley, and her name was Delilah.
5The Philistine bosses slid into her DMs, saying, "Get him to spill the tea on his strength so we can take him down. We'll hook you up with 1,100 silver coins."
6Delilah asked Samson, "For real, what’s the secret to your strength and how can I tie you up?"
7Samson was like, "If you tie me with seven fresh ropes that ain’t dried out, I’ll be weak like any other dude."
8The Philistine bosses brought her those seven fresh ropes, and she tied him up with them.
9Meanwhile, there were guys hiding in the room. She was like, "Samson, the Philistines are coming!" He broke the ropes like they were nothing, so no one knew his strength.
10Delilah said to Samson, "You’re playing me, telling me lies! Now spill the real tea on how you can be tied up."
11He was like, "If you tie me up with fresh ropes that’ve never been used, I’ll be weak, like a total noob."
12Delilah grabbed new ropes and tied him up, saying, "Yo, the Philistines are coming for you, Samson." But there were peeps lurking in the shadows. He snapped those ropes off like they were nothing.
13Delilah was like, "You’ve been playing me and telling me fibs. Spill the tea on how you can be tied up." He replied, "If you weave my seven hair locks into something."
14She secured it with a pin and said, "The Philistines are on you, Samson." He woke up, yanked the pin out, and bounced with the web.
15She asked, "How can you say you love me when your heart's not in it? You’ve played me three times and still haven’t told me where your power comes from."
16After she kept bugging him every day, he was so stressed he felt like he was gonna lose it.
17So he spilled everything, saying, "No razor’s touched my head; I’ve been dedicated to God since day one. If I get shaved, I’ll be weak like any regular dude."
18When Delilah saw he opened up, she called the Philistine bosses, saying, "Yo, come check this out; he just told me everything." They showed up with cash in hand.
19She made him chill on her lap, called a dude, and got him to shave off his seven locks. She started messing with him, and his strength dipped.
20She said, "The Philistines are on you, Samson." He woke up and thought, "I’ll just shake it off like before." But he had no clue the Lord had dipped on him.
21The Philistines caught him, took out his eyes, and brought him to Gaza, locking him up in chains; dude was grinding in prison, no cap.
22But his hair started growing back after they shaved him, fr.
23The Philistine bosses threw a massive party to worship Dagon, their god, saying, "Our god totally handed over Samson, our enemy!"
24When the crowd saw him, they hyped up their god, saying, "Our god gave us our enemy and the one who wrecked our land, lit."
25When they were feeling good, they said, "Yo, bring out Samson for some entertainment." So they called him from prison, and he gave them a show, chillin' between the pillars.
26Samson told the kid holding his hand, "Let me feel the pillars holding this place up so I can lean on them."
27The spot was packed with men and women; all the Philistine lords were there, and about three thousand peeps were on the roof watching Samson perform.
28Samson called out to the Lord, saying, "Yo, God, remember me, please, and give me strength one last time so I can get back at the Philistines for my eyes."
29Samson grabbed the two middle pillars that held the house up, one with his right hand and the other with his left.
30Samson said, "Let me go out with the Philistines." He pushed with all his might, and the house crashed down on the lords and everyone inside. He took out more peeps when he died than he did while alive, periodt.
31Then his fam and all his peeps rolled up, took him, and laid him to rest between Zorah and Eshtaol in Manoah's chill spot. He was the judge of Israel for twenty years, no cap.