Verse 3
Judges 14:3
World English Bible
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Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?”
Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר ל֜/וֹ אָבִ֣י/ו וְ/אִמּ֗/וֹ הַ/אֵין֩ בִּ/בְנ֨וֹת אַחֶ֤י/ךָ וּ/בְ/כָל עַמִּ/י֙ אִשָּׁ֔ה כִּֽי אַתָּ֤ה הוֹלֵךְ֙ לָ/קַ֣חַת אִשָּׁ֔ה מִ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים הָ/עֲרֵלִ֑ים וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן אֶל אָבִי/ו֙ אוֹתָ֣/הּ קַֽח לִ֔/י כִּֽי הִ֖יא יָשְׁרָ֥ה בְ/עֵינָֽ/י
English Translation
And he said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people, that you go to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
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Chapter 14 Context
1
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
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He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daug...
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Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or...
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But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against t...
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Then went Samson down with his father and his mother to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah;...
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Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had...
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He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
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8
After a while he returned to take her; and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold,...
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9
He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother, and gav...
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His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
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11
When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
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12
Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven day...
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but if you can’t declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes o...
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14
He said to them,
“Out of the eater came out food.
Out of the strong came out sweetness.”
They couldn...
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15
On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the...
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16
Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle...
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She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, b...
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18
The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than h...
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Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, a...
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But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.
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