Editing Samson (section)

===Death===
One day, the Philistine leaders assemble in a temple for a religious sacrifice to [[Dagon]], one of their most important deities, for having delivered Samson into their hands.<ref name="iii"/><ref name= "eej">{{wwbible|Old Testament, 319}}</ref> They summon Samson so that people can watch him perform for them. The temple is so crowded that people are even climbing onto the roof to watch{{snd}}and all the rulers of the entire government of Philistia have gathered there too, some 3,000 people in all.<ref name="chd"/><ref name="eej" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://biblehub.com/judges/16-27.htm|title=Judges 16:27 Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.|website=biblehub.com}}</ref> Samson is led into the temple, and he asks his captors to let him lean against the supporting pillars to rest.  However, while in prison his hair had begun to grow again.<ref>{{bibleverse|Judges|16:22|HE}}</ref>  He prays for strength and God gives him strength to break the pillars, causing the temple to collapse, killing him and the people inside.<ref>{{bibleverse|Judges|16:28–30|HE}}, JPS (1917)</ref>

After his death, Samson's family recovered his body from the rubble and buried him near the tomb of his father Manoah.<ref name="eej"/> A [[tomb]] structure which some attribute to Samson and his father stands on the top of the mountain in [[Tel Tzora]],<ref>{{cite book|author1-first =I. M. | author1-last = Levinger|author2-first = Kalman | author2-last = Neuman|title= IsraGuide 2007/2008 | format = pb |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=uj7Dqe2rngEC |year=2008|publisher=Feldheim Publishers|isbn=978-1598261547|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=uj7Dqe2rngEC&pg=PT228 266]}}</ref> although a separate tradition passed down by the traveler [[Isaac Chelo]] in 1334 alleges that Samson was buried at the monument known as ''al-Jārib'' in ''Sheikh Abū Mezār'', a village (now ruin) located near [[Tel Beit Shemesh]].<ref name="Ben-Yosef">{{cite book |last=Ben-Yosef |first=Sefi|author-link=:he:ספי בן-יוסף |editor=Sefi Ben-Yosef|contribution=Sar'ah |title=Israel Guide – Judaea (A useful encyclopedia for the knowledge of the country)|volume=9 |publisher=Keter Publishing House, in affiliation with the Israel Ministry of Defence |location=Jerusalem|year=n.d.|page=306 |language=he|oclc=745203905 }}</ref> Near the village there used to be shown a hewn rock, known as ''Qal'at al-mafrazah'', on whose top and sides are quarried different impressions and thought to be the altar built by Manoah.<ref name="Ben-Yosef"/> At the conclusion of Judges 16, it is said that Samson had "judged" Israel for twenty years.<ref name="iii" />