2 Kings 25:7 records Zedekiah's identical punishment: eyes put out, bound in bronze shackles, and taken captive—a striking parallel to Samson's fate.

2 Chronicles 33:11 describes Manasseh bound with bronze shackles and taken captive—the same instrument of bondage used on Samson.

Psalm 107:10-12 describes prisoners in darkness and irons because of rebellion—Samson's blinding and shackles match this picture of divine judgment.

Proverbs 5:22 says the wicked are held by the cords of their sin — Samson's physical shackles and blindness picture the bondage his sin brought.

Jeremiah 39:7 records Zedekiah's blinding and binding — a strikingly parallel fate for a captured leader, emphasizing humiliation.

Exodus 11:5 mentions a slave girl grinding at the handmill—Samson is forced to grind grain, the same degrading labor.

1 Samuel 11:2 shows the same brutal practice of eye-gouging as a threat — highlighting the cruelty Samson endured.

Proverbs 2:19 warns that those who go to the adulterous woman do not return—Samson's ruin came through Delilah, a parallel to that path of destruction.

Lamentations 5:13 describes young men grinding at the mill, echoing Samson's forced grinding as a sign of humiliation and oppression.

2 Samuel 3:34 describes Abner dying unbound — the opposite of Samson, who was fettered with bronze shackles.

Isaiah 47:2 taunts Babylon to grind flour as a slave—Samson's grinding in prison echoes this humiliating task for the proud.