Judges 13:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, nor would he have shown us all these things, nor would he at this time have told us such things as these.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But his wife answered him: Yf the LORDE wolde haue slaine vs, he had not receaued the burtnofferynge and meatofferynge of oure handes: nether had he shewed vs all these thinges, ner letten vs heare soch as is now come to passe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But his wife saide vnto him, If the Lorde woulde kill vs, he woulde not haue receiued a burnt offring, and a meate offring of our hands, neither would he haue shewed vs all these things, nor would now haue tolde vs any such.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But his wyfe sayde vnto him: Yf the Lord would kyll vs, he would not haue receaued a burnt offering and a meate offering of our handes, neither woulde he haue shewed vs al these thinges, nor woulde nowe haue tolde vs any suche.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And his wife saith to him, `If Jehovah were desirous to put us to death, He had not received from our hands burnt-offering and present, nor shewed us all these things, nor as `at this' time caused us to hear `anything' like this.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But his wife said to him,“If the LORD wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
  • Ps 86:17 : 17 Show me a sign for good, that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed, because You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
  • Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse person is an abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
  • Eccl 4:9-9 : 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has not another to help him up.
  • John 14:20 : 20 At that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
  • John 15:15 : 15 From now on I call you not servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
  • 1 Cor 12:21 : 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
  • Gen 4:4-5 : 4 And Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect for Abel and his offering: 5 But for Cain and his offering he did not have respect. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 80%

    19So Manoah took a young goat with a grain offering, and offered it on a rock to the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

    20For it happened, when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife watched it and fell on their faces to the ground.

    21But the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.

    22And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

  • 24And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

  • 73%

    15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband to tell us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not so?

    16And Samson's wife wept before him and said, You only hate me, and love me not. You have put forth a riddle to the children 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 my mother, and shall I tell you?

    17And 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 pressed him greatly. And she told the riddle to the children of her people.

  • Judg 13:5-17
    13 verses
    73%

    5For, behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

    6Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like that of an angel of God, very awesome: but I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name:

    7But he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

    8Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do for the child who shall be born.

    9And God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.

    10And the woman quickly ran and told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the other day.

    11And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man, and said to him, Are you the man that spoke to the woman? And he said, I am.

    12And Manoah said, Now let your words come to pass. How shall we raise the child, and what shall we do for him?

    13And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.

    14She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, nor let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

    15And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, I pray you, let us detain you, until we have made ready a young goat for you.

    16And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I will not eat your bread: but if you will offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the LORD. For Manoah did not know that he was an angel of the LORD.

    17And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, What is your name, that when your words come to pass we may honor you?

  • Judg 15:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1After a while, during the wheat harvest, Samson visited 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 enter.

    2Her father said, I truly thought you hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? Take her instead, I ask you.

    3Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be blameless toward the Philistines, though I cause them harm.

  • Judg 14:1-4
    4 verses
    71%

    1And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

    2And he came up and told his father and mother, saying, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore, get her for me as a wife.

    3Then his father and mother 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 wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me well.

    4But 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.

  • 7And he went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

  • Judg 13:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

    3And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, you are barren and have no children: but you shall conceive and bear a son.

  • Judg 15:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

    7Samson said to them, Though you have done this, yet I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

  • 69%

    19And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and killed thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of garments to those who explained the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

    20But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

  • 68%

    23Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand."

    24When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, "Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, the destroyer of our land, and the one who multiplied our dead."

  • 68%

    23That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer on it burnt offering or grain offering, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the LORD Himself require it;

    24And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel?

  • 36And she said to him, My father, if you have opened your mouth to the LORD, do to me according to what has proceeded out of your mouth; forasmuch as the LORD has taken vengeance for you upon your enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

  • 9And watch, if it goes up the road to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it was not His hand that struck us, but it happened to us by chance.

  • 19And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things mean to us, that you are doing so?

  • 9Then his wife said to him, Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God, and die.

  • 12They said to him, We have come down to bind you, so we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.

  • 17that he told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

  • 22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them at this time, so you would not be guilty.

  • 9And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us continually.

  • 11And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your maidservant, and remember me, and not forget your maidservant, but will give your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.

  • 21And the woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, Behold, your maidservant has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hand and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

  • 9And he took some in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them some, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.