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Judges 14 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Samson Takes a Philistine as His Wife

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Then Samson went down to Timnah and saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:2 - So he came back up and told his father and [fn]mother, “I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; so now, take her for me as a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your [fn]relatives, or among all [fn]our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - However, his father and mother did not know that it was of Yahweh, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.

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Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and they came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion came roaring toward him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - And the Spirit of Yahweh [fn]came upon him mightily, so that he tore it as one tears a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - So he went down and spoke to the woman; and she was right in the eyes of Samson.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - Then he returned later to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:9 - So he scraped [fn]the honey into his [fn]hands and went on, eating as he went. Then he went to his father and mother, and he gave some to them, and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion.

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Then his father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men customarily did this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:11 - Now it happened that when they saw him, they took thirty companions to be with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - Then Samson said to them, “Let me now propound a riddle to you; if you will indeed tell it to me within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen wraps and thirty changes of clothes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:13 - “But if you are unable to tell me, then you shall give me thirty linen wraps and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Propound your riddle, that we may hear it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - So he said to them,

“Out of the eater came something to eat,

And out of the strong came something sweet.”

But they could not tell the riddle in three days.

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Then it happened on the [fn]fourth day that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, so that he will tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is this not so?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - So Samson’s wife wept before him and said, “You only hate me, and you do not love me; you have propounded a riddle to the sons of my people and have not told it to me.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father or mother; so should I tell you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:17 - However she wept before him seven days while their feast lasted. And on the seventh day he told her because she pressed him so hard. She then told the riddle to the sons of her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,

“What is sweeter than honey?

And what is stronger than a lion?”

And he said to them,

“If you had not plowed with my heifer,

You would not have found out my riddle.”

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Then the Spirit of Yahweh [fn]came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty of them and took their spoil and gave the changes of clothes to those who told the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his [fn]friend.
See the LSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
LSB Footnotes
Lit mother, saying,
Lit brothers
Lit my
Lit succeeded, rushed upon
Lit it
Lit palms
As in some ancient versions; M.T. seventh
Lit succeeded, rushed upon
Or best man
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