But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
 

16:21 did grind. Philistine prisons were, indeed, used as “grinding houses,” where prisoners were required to “grind” grain for the Philistine aristocracy, using hard grinding stones in mortars held on their laps.

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