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[willfollowsGod]

Judges 14:7
New International Version (NIV)

Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 14:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] When he returned later to take her, he turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 14:9 (KJV)
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 14:10 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] Then his father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men customarily did this.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 14:11
New International Version (NIV)

When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 14:12
King James Version( KJV)

12.)And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

 

[Chester]

Judges 14:13

“But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.”

King James Version (KJV)

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 14:14 (NASB)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] 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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 14:15 (ERV)
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to impoverish us? is it not so?

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 14:16 (NASB)
[SUP]16 [/SUP] 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?"

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 14:17
King James Version(KJV)

17.)And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

 

[mar09]

Jdg 14:18 And the men of the city said unto 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 unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 14:19 (NASB)
[SUP]19 [/SUP] Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed 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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 14:20 (KJV)
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

 

[mario1001]

Judges 15:1 After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 15:2 (NASB)
[SUP]2 [/SUP] Her father said, "I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead."

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 15:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] Samson then said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm."

 

[mar09]

Jdg 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

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[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 15:5
King James Version(KJV)

15.)And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 15:6 (KJV)
Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.