Judges 15:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Her 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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and sayde: I thoughte thou wast displeased at her, and I gaue her vnto thy frende. But she hath a yonger sister which is more beutyfull then she, let ye same be thine for her.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And her father sayde, I thought that thou hadst hated her: therefore gaue I her to thy companion. Is not her yonger sister fayrer then shee? take her, I pray thee, in stead of the other.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And her father sayde, I thought that thou haddest hated her, & therfore gaue I her to thy companion: Is not her younger sister fayrer then she? Take her I pray thee, in steade of the other.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is] not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister -- the young one -- better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Her father said,“I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!”

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 14:20 : 20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
  • Gen 38:14 : 14 So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat by the roadside in an open place, which is on the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
  • Judg 14:16 : 16 And 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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 15:1
    82%

    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.

  • Judg 14:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Deut 22:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16And the young woman's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he hates her;

    17And behold, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not your daughter a virgin; and yet these are the signs of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

  • Judg 14:19-20
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Judg 15:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Judg 15:3
    76%

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

  • Judg 14:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Gen 24:38
    73%

    38but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

  • Judg 19:3
    72%

    3And her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, having his servant with him and a pair of donkeys. She brought him into her father's house, and when the young woman’s father saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

  • Deut 22:14
    72%

    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

  • Gen 34:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find grace in your eyes, and whatever you say to me, I will give.

    12Ask me for ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to your saying to me, but give me the young woman as a wife.

  • Judg 14:7
    72%

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

  • Gen 12:19
    72%

    19Why did you say, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me as a wife: now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your way.

  • Judg 16:15
    72%

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  • Gen 20:12
    71%

    12And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

  • Gen 38:16
    71%

    16He turned to her by the roadside and said, Let me come in to you; for he did not know she was his daughter-in-law. She said, What will you give me, that you may come in to me?

  • Gen 34:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8And Hamor spoke with them, saying, My son Shechem longs for your daughter; I pray you give her to him as a wife.

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  • Judg 11:36-38
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

    37And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.

    38And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

  • Exod 22:17
    71%

    17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Judg 16:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4It came to pass after this, that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

    5And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said, "Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, so that we may bind him and afflict him. Every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver."

  • Judg 14:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10So his father went down to the woman, and Samson made there a feast, for so the young men used to do.

    11And it happened, when they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

  • Exod 21:9
    70%

    9And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

  • Ezek 16:45
    70%

    45You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathe their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Deut 21:15
    70%

    15If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated,

  • 2 Sam 13:11-12
    2 verses
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    11And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come lie with me, my sister.

    12And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing should be done in Israel: do not commit this disgrace.

  • Judg 21:22
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 34:4
    69%

    4And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this young woman as a wife.

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    16And she said to him, There is no reason: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me. But he would not listen to her.

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    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.