Samson was the strongest man that ever lived. At one time he tore a live
lion apart with his hands, at another he killed one thousand men, and at
another he carried away the gates of Gaza, a city of the Philistines.
But the very last thing that he did was the most wonderful of all. The
Philistines had cruelly put out his eyes. At a feast where there were
over three thousand of them, Samson got a boy to show him the way, and
then putting his hands upon two pillars that held up the roof, and
praying God for help, he pressed upon them with all his might. The
pillars broke, the roof fell. Samson himself and the Philistines were
killed.
[Illustration: SAMSON AND THE PHILISTINES.]