Judges 16:3 states that Samson, who had been surrounded at night by Philistines in Gaza, “lay until midnight, and at midnight he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, and the two posts, and pulled them up, along with the bars; then he put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is opposite Hebron.” How much did this trophy weigh? The question cannot be answered with certainty, of course, but archaeology gives us a pretty good idea how city......