Judges 16:25

In their merriment they call for Samson to entertain them and set him between the pillars. The deliverer is paraded as a spectacle.

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• 2 Sam 13:28Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
• Judg 9:27And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
• Judg 19:6So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
• Ps 35:15–16But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
• Heb 11:36Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
• Isa 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
• Job 30:9–10And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
• Dan 5:2–3Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
• Matt 27:29And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand and knelt down before Him to mock Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
• Judg 19:9When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”
• 1 Kgs 20:12Ben-hadad received this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents, and he said to his servants, “Take your positions.” So they stationed themselves against the city.
• Esth 3:15The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.
• Prov 24:17–18Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
• Judg 18:20So the priest was glad and took the ephod, the household idols, and the graven image, and went with the people.
• Ps 69:26For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
• Ps 69:12Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
• Matt 14:6–7On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod
• Matt 27:39–44And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
• Matt 26:67–68Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
• Mic 7:8–10Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

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