5 All these were cities fortified with a high wall, doors and bar, aside from very many rural towns.

3 However, Samson kept lying till midnight and then rose at midnight and grabbed hold of the doors of the city gate+ and the two side posts and pulled them out along with the bar and put them upon his shoulders and went carrying+ them up to the top of the mountain that is in front of Heʹbron.*+

7 In time the report was made to Saul: “David has come to Keiʹlah.”+ And Saul began to say: “God has sold* him into my hand,+ for he has shut himself up by coming into a city with doors and bar.”