The Lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon (Dragon!) and to rejoice at Dagon delivering Samson, their enemy, into their hands. They brought him into their midst to make fun of him, mock and humiliate him. They set him between two pillars in the house they had gathered – all the Philistine lords, men and women and about three thousand people on the terrace (balcony?) watching the fun. Samson prayed one last time to his Lord for strength and catching hold of the pillars, brought down the house, roof and all. He died with the Philistines but not before destroying a great number of them through this exploit. The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. – Jud 16:30.