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.

Cross-references · 20

• 2 Sam 13:28Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
• Judg 9:27They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
• Judg 19:6So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”
• Ps 35:15–16But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
• Heb 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
• Isa 22:13and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
• Job 30:9–10“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
• Dan 5:2–3Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
• Matt 27:29They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
• Judg 19:9When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night. Behold, the day is ending. Stay here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home.”
• 1 Kgs 20:12When Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, he said to his servants, “Prepare to attack!” They prepared to attack the city.
• Esth 3:15The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
• Prov 24:17–18Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;
• Judg 18:20The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
• Ps 69:26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
• Ps 69:12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
• Matt 14:6–7But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.
• Matt 27:39–44Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
• Matt 26:67–68Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
• Mic 7:8–10Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

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