So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and did not become a threat again. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."

He said to them, "Thus and so has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest."