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 trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city every man straight before him, and they took the city, a they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man a woman, young and old, and ox, and sheer, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were within.

David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was n sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew Goliath, and cut off his head therewith And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.

And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.