Verse 6
Judges 14:6
Free Bible Version
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The Spirit of the Lord swept over him, and he ripped the lion apart with his bare hands as easily as ripping apart a young goat. But he didn't tell his father or mother what he'd done. Then he went on his way.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תִּצְלַ֨ח עָלָ֜י/ו ר֣וּחַ יְהוָ֗ה וַֽ/יְשַׁסְּעֵ֨/הוּ֙ כְּ/שַׁסַּ֣ע הַ/גְּדִ֔י וּ/מְא֖וּמָה אֵ֣ין בְּ/יָד֑/וֹ וְ/לֹ֤א הִגִּיד֙ לְ/אָבִ֣י/ו וּ/לְ/אִמּ֔/וֹ אֵ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָֽׂה
English Translation
And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he tore it apart as one tears a young goat, and there was nothing in his hand; and he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
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Chapter 14 Context
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One day Samson went to Timnah, where a young Philistine woman attracted his attention.
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He went back home and told his father and mother, “A Philistine woman in Timnah caught my attention....
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But his father and mother replied, “Can't you find a young woman from our tribe or from our own peop...
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(His father and mother didn't realize that this was in the Lord's plans, who was looking for an oppo...
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5
Samson went to Timnah with his father and mother. When they passed the Timnah vineyards, all of a su...
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6
The Spirit of the Lord swept over him, and he ripped the lion apart with his bare hands as easily as...
7
Later on when Samson returned to marry her, he turned off the road to look for the lion's carcass. I...
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8
He scraped out some of the honey into his hands and ate it as he walked. When he got back to his fat...
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9
While his father went to visit the woman, Samson held a drinking party there, because this was the c...
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10
When the Philistine people saw him, they arranged for thirty men to accompany him.
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11
“Let me pose a riddle to you,” Samson said to them. “If you can find its meaning and explain it to m...
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12
But if you can't explain it to me, you'll give me thirty linen cloaks and thirty sets of clothes.” “...
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13
“Food came out of the eater, and sweetness came out of the strong,” he said. Three days later they s...
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14
On the fourth day they came to Samson's wife and told her, “Use your charms to get your husband to e...
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15
So Samson's wife went crying to him, saying, “You really do hate me, don't you! You don't love me at...
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She cried in front of him for the whole time of the party, and eventually on the seventh day he expl...
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17
Before the sun set on the seventh day, the men of the town came to Samson and said, “What's sweeter...
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18
The Spirit of the Lord swept over him and he went to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took thei...
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