They said to him, "We promise! We will only take you prisoner and hand you over to them. We promise not to kill you." They tied him up with two brand new ropes and led him up from the cliff.

He said to her, "If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be just like any other man."

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes and took fire brands, and turned tail to tail, and put a fire brand in the middle between two tails.

They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

"The vine said to them, 'Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

That entire generation passed away; a new generation grew up that had not personally experienced the Lord's presence or seen what he had done for Israel.