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 # The Gazites surrounded the place ... they waited for him all night at the city gate
 
-Some Gazites surrounded the place where Samson was staying and others waited at the city gate so that he could not leave.
+Some Gazites surrounded the place where Samson was staying and others waited at the city gate.
 
 # They kept silent all night