3 (from the branch of the Nile* that is in front of Egypt and up to the border of Ekʹron to the north,+ it used to be reckoned as belonging to the Caʹnaan·ites);+ five axis lords*+ of the Phi·lisʹtines, the Gaʹzites*+ and the Ashʹdod·ites,+ the Ashʹke·lon·ites,+ the Gitʹtites*+ and the Ekʹron·ites;+ and the Avʹvim.+

3 The five axis lords*+ of the Phi·lisʹtines,+ and all the Caʹnaan·ites,+ even the Si·doʹni·ans+ and the Hiʹvites+ inhabiting Mount Lebʹa·non+ from Mount Baʹal-herʹmon+ as far as to the entering in of Haʹmath.*+

5 And the axis lords+ of the Phi·lisʹtines proceeded to come up to her and to say to her: “Fool+ him and see in what his great power is and with what we can prevail over him and with what we are certain to tie him so as to master him; and we, for our part, shall give you each one thousand one hundred silver pieces.”+

30 And Samson proceeded to say: “Let my soul die+ with the Phi·lisʹtines.” Then he bent himself with power, and the house went falling upon the axis lords and upon all the people that were in it,+ so that the dead that he put to death in his own death came to be more than those he had put to death during his lifetime.+

8 Consequently they sent and gathered all the axis lords of the Phi·lisʹtines to them and said: “What shall we do to the ark of the God of Israel?” Finally they said: “Toward Gath+ let the ark of the God of Israel go around.” So they brought the ark of the God of Israel around to there.*

4 At this they said: “What is the guilt offering that we ought to return to him?” Then they said: “According to the number of the axis lords+ of the Phi·lisʹtines, five golden piles and five golden jerboas,* for every one of YOU* and YOUR axis lords have the same scourge.*

2 And the axis lords+ of the Phi·lisʹtines were passing along by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing along afterward with Aʹchish.+

19 And there were some of Ma·nasʹseh that deserted* to David when he came with the Phi·lisʹtines+ against Saul for battle; but he* did not help them, for on counsel the axis+ lords of the Phi·lisʹtines sent him away, saying: “At the risk of our own heads he will desert to his lord* Saul.”+