Judges 14:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Now his father and mother did not know that this was from the LORD, for he was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines. At that time, the Philistines were ruling over Israel.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    But his father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines, for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    But his father{H1} and his mother{H517} knew{H3045} not that it was of Jehovah;{H3068} for he sought{H1245} an occasion{H8385} against the Philistines.{H6430} Now at that time{H6256} the Philistines{H6430} had rule{H4910} over Israel.{H3478}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But his father{H1} and his mother{H517} knew{H3045}{(H8804)} not that it was of the LORD{H3068}, that he sought{H1245}{(H8764)} an occasion{H8385} against the Philistines{H6430}: for at that time{H6256} the Philistines{H6430} had dominion{H4910}{(H8802)} over Israel{H3478}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But his father & his mother knewe not yt it came of the LORDE, & that he soughte an occasion agaynst the Philistynes. For the Philistynes reigned ouer Israel at ye same tyme.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But his father and his mother knewe not that it came of the Lorde, that he should seeke an occasion against the Philistims: for at that time the Philistims reigned ouer Israel.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But his father and mother wist not that it was the Lordes doyng, and that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines raigned ouer Israel.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But his father and his mother knew not that it [was] of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And his father and his mother have not known that from Jehovah it `is', that a meeting he is seeking of the Philistines; and at that time the Philistines are ruling over Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But his father and his mother knew not that it was of Jehovah; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But his father and his mother knew not that it was of Jehovah; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Now his father and mother did not realize this was the LORD’s doing, because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines(for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 11:20 : 20 For it was the LORD's purpose to harden their hearts to engage in battle with Israel, so that they would be utterly destroyed, receiving no mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  • Judg 13:1 : 1 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.
  • Judg 15:11 : 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don’t you know that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?" He replied, "I only did to them what they did to me."
  • 1 Kgs 12:15 : 15 So the king refused to listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word spoken by the LORD through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
  • 2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 While he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. The king said, "This disaster is from the LORD. Why should I wait any longer for the LORD?"
  • 2 Chr 10:15 : 15 So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
  • 2 Chr 22:7 : 7 Ahaziah’s downfall came from God, for when he went to Jehoram, he joined him in meeting Jehu, son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
  • 2 Chr 25:20 : 20 But Amaziah would not listen, for this was from God, so that he might deliver them into the hands of their enemies, because they sought the gods of Edom.
  • Ps 115:3 : 3 Our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.
  • Deut 28:48 : 48 You will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and total destitution. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Judg 14:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1 Samson went down to Timnah, and there he saw a woman from among the daughters of the Philistines.

    2 He returned and told his father and mother, 'I have seen a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. Now get her for me as a wife.'

    3 But his father and mother said to him, 'Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives or among all our people, that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?' Yet Samson said to his father, 'Get her for me, because she is right in my eyes.'

  • Judg 14:5-11
    7 verses
    79%

    5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother. When they came to the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.

    6 The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one might tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

    7 Then he went down and spoke to the woman, and she pleased Samson.

    8 Later, when he returned to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass. Inside it, he saw a swarm of bees and some honey.

    9 He scooped the honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. When he returned to his father and mother, he gave them some, and they ate it too. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

    10 His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for young men.

    11 When the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

  • Judg 13:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23 But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things, nor let us hear such things now."

    24 The woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the Lord blessed him.

  • Judg 16:20
    74%

    20 Then she called, 'Samson, the Philistines are upon you!' He awoke from his sleep and thought, 'I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.' But he did not know that the LORD had left him.

  • Judg 15:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 After some time, during the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing a young goat as a gift. He said, "Let me go into my wife's room," but her father would not let him enter.

    2 Her father said, "I thought you completely hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead."

    3 Samson said to them, "This time I cannot be blamed when I harm the Philistines."

  • Judg 14:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife, 'Entice your husband to tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s household with fire. Did you invite us here to impoverish us?'

    16 So Samson’s wife wept before him and said, 'You only hate me; you do not love me. You have posed a riddle to my people, but you have not told me the answer.' He replied, 'I have not even told it to my father or mother; why should I tell you?'

  • Judg 15:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5 Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up both the shocks of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

    6 When the Philistines asked, "Who did this?" they were told, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because his father-in-law gave his wife to Samson's companion." So the Philistines went and burned her and her father to death.

    7 Samson said to them, "If you act like this, I swear I will get revenge on you, and after that, I will stop."

  • Judg 13:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

    2 There was a certain man from Zorah, from the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren and had no children.

  • Judg 15:9-12
    4 verses
    71%

    9 The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi.

    10 The men of Judah asked, "Why have you come to attack us?" They replied, "We have come to tie up Samson and do to him as he has done to us."

    11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don’t you know that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?" He replied, "I only did to them what they did to me."

    12 They said to him, "We have come down to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you yourselves will not harm me."

  • 1 Sam 7:13
    70%

    13 So the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israel's territory again. The hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

  • Judg 14:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 Then the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, took their belongings, and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he went back to his father’s house.

    20 Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best friend.

  • Judg 13:5
    70%

    5 For you will conceive and give birth to a son, and no razor is to touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to rescue Israel from the power of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 3:7
    70%

    7 Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

  • 1 Sam 14:1
    70%

    1 One day Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who carried his armor, 'Come, let us cross over to the garrison of the Philistines on the other side.' But he did not tell his father.

  • Judg 16:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

    5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, 'Entice him and find out the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so that we may tie him up and subdue him. Each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.'

  • 1 Sam 7:7
    69%

    7 When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had assembled at Mizpah, their rulers marched up against Israel. When the Israelites heard of this, they were afraid of the Philistines.

  • Judg 16:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23 The rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, 'Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.'

    24 When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, 'Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us.'

  • 1 Sam 17:46-47
    2 verses
    69%

    46 'Today, the LORD will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you down and cut off your head. I will give the corpses of the Philistines’ army today to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.'

    47 'And all those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle belongs to the LORD, and He will give you into our hands.'

  • 1 Sam 14:30
    68%

    30 How much better it would have been if the men had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the defeat of the Philistines have been even greater?

  • Judg 16:14
    68%

    14 While he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his hair, wove them into the fabric, and fastened them with the pin. Then she called to him, 'Samson, the Philistines are upon you!' But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin, the loom, and the fabric.

  • Judg 16:9
    68%

    9 With men hidden in the room, she called out to him, 'Samson, the Philistines are upon you!' But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

  • 1 Sam 7:10
    68%

    10 While Samuel was offering the burnt offering, the Philistines approached to fight against Israel. But on that day, the LORD thundered with a mighty sound against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were defeated before Israel.

  • 1 Sam 14:37
    68%

    37 Saul inquired of God, 'Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?' But He did not answer him that day.

  • 1 Sam 20:39
    68%

    39 The boy knew nothing about this; only Jonathan and David knew of the matter.

  • 1 Chr 14:8
    67%

    8 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they went up in full force to search for him, but David heard about it and went out to face them.

  • Judg 16:31
    67%

    31 Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah, his father. He had led Israel for twenty years.

  • Judg 2:10
    67%

    10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD or the works he had done for Israel.

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