Verse 15
Judges 14:15
Bible in Basic English
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So on the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Get from your husband the answer to his question by some trick or other, or we will have you and your father's house burned with fire; did you get us here to take all we have?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְהִ֣י בַּ/יּ֣וֹם הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֗י וַ/יֹּאמְר֤וּ לְ/אֵֽשֶׁת שִׁמְשׁוֹן֙ פַּתִּ֣י אֶת אִישֵׁ֗/ךְ וְ/יַגֶּד לָ֨/נוּ֙ אֶת הַ֣/חִידָ֔ה פֶּן נִשְׂרֹ֥ף אוֹתָ֛/ךְ וְ/אֶת בֵּ֥ית אָבִ֖י/ךְ בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ הַ/לְ/יָרְשֵׁ֕/נוּ קְרָאתֶ֥ם לָ֖/נוּ הֲ/לֹֽא
English Translation
And it came to pass on the seventh day that they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband, and let him tell us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is it not so?"
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Chapter 14 Context
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Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;
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And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daught...
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Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or a...
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Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destru...
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Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Tim...
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And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two a...
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So he went down and had talk with the woman; and she was pleasing to Samson.
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Then after a time he went back to take her; and turning from the road to see the dead body of the li...
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And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his fathe...
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Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.
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And he took thirty friends, and they were with him.
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And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before th...
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But if you are not able to give me the answer, then you will have to give me thirty linen robes and...
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And he said, Out of the taker of food came food, and out of the strong came the sweet. And at the en...
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So on the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Get from your husband the answer to his question by...
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Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have pu...
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And all the seven days of the feast she went on weeping over him; and on the seventh day he gave her...
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Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What...
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And the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and, attacking thirty m...
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But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.
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