Judges 13:24 (MSB)
24 So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Advanced search Browse books, chapters, and verses
MSB
Search Results
Search Results
Dictionary
Bible Search Results
Search Results
25 passages ready to capture, save, and share.
Judges 14:1 (MSB)
1 One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
Judges 14:3 (MSB)
3 But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
Judges 14:5 (MSB)
5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
Judges 14:7 (MSB)
7 Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.
Judges 14:8 (MSB)
8 When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
Judges 14:10 (MSB)
10 Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
Judges 14:12 (MSB)
12 “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
Judges 14:15 (MSB)
15 So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
Judges 14:16 (MSB)
16 Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
Judges 14:18 (MSB)
18 Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”
Judges 14:19 (MSB)
19 Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned to his father’s house,
Judges 15:1 (MSB)
1 Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
Judges 15:3 (MSB)
3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”
Judges 15:4 (MSB)
4 Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
Judges 15:6 (MSB)
6 “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
Judges 15:7 (MSB)
7 And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
Judges 15:10 (MSB)
10 “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
Judges 15:11 (MSB)
11 In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
Judges 15:12 (MSB)
12 But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”
Judges 15:14 (MSB)
14 When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
Judges 15:16 (MSB)
16 Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
Judges 15:17 (MSB)
17 And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.
Judges 15:18 (MSB)
18 And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
Judges 15:19 (MSB)
19 So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
Study Tools
Search Concordance
Study repeated words and related search paths drawn from the verses returned above.
Concordance Focus
Open repeated words from this result set as fresh Bible searches.
Related Study Items
Use these next-step searches to explore the same theme in more places.