² [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

²⁶ Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

¹⁰ All the nations surrounded me, But in the name of Yahweh, I cut them off.

¹¹ They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I indeed cut them off.

¹² They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

¹⁸ He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

¹¹ Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.

³⁸ But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'

¹ Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

¹⁵ Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

³² In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

³³ Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.