Judges 16:1

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Then Samson went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and he went in to her.

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  • Josh 15:47 : 47 Ashdod with its towns and villages, Gaza with its towns and villages, to the river of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coastlands:
  • Ezra 9:1-2 : 1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has mingled with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.
  • Gen 10:19 : 19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go to Gerar, unto Gaza; as you go, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
  • Gen 38:16-18 : 16 He 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? 17 He said, I will send you a young goat from the flock. She said, Will you give me a pledge, till you send it? 18 He said, What pledge shall I give you? She replied, Your signet, your bracelets, and your staff that is in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

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  • Judg 16:2-6
    5 verses
    81%

    2 And the people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here." So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They stayed quiet all night, saying, "In the morning, at daylight, we will kill him."

    3 But Samson lay there until midnight, and at midnight he arose, and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

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

    5 And 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."

    6 So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you can be bound to afflict you."

  • Judg 14:1-3
    3 verses
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    1 And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

    2 And 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.

    3 Then 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.

  • Judg 15:1-3
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    1 After 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.

    2 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.

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

  • Judg 14:7-8
    2 verses
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    7 And he went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

    8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.

  • Judg 16:12-23
    12 verses
    72%

    12 Therefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And men were lying in wait in the room. But he broke them off his arms like a thread.

    13 Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web."

    14 So she fastened it with the pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the pin of the loom and the web.

    15 Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times and have not told me where your great strength lies."

    16 And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, that his soul was vexed to death,

    17 that 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."

    18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart." So the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

    19 Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.

    20 She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" So he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

    21 Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze chains, and he became a grinder in the prison.

    22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.

    23 Now 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."

  • Judg 16:8-10
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    69%

    8 So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh cords, which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

    9 Now men were lying in wait, staying with her in the room. And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he broke the cords as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

    10 Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have mocked me and told me lies. Now, please tell me how you can be bound."

  • Judg 16:27
    69%

    27 Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there—about three thousand men and women on the roof, watching while Samson performed.

  • Judg 14:10-11
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    68%

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

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

  • Judg 14:19-20
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    19 And 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.

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

  • Judg 14:15-16
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    67%

    15 And 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?

    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?

  • Judg 14:5
    67%

    5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came roaring against him.

  • Judg 15:6-7
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    67%

    6 Then 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.

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

  • Judg 1:18
    67%

    18 Also Judah took Gaza with its territory, and Askelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

  • Judg 13:24
    66%

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

  • Judg 15:11-12
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    66%

    11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? What is this you have done to us? He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.

    12 They 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.

  • Judg 16:25
    66%

    25 So it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may perform for us." So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them, and they stationed him between the pillars.

  • 2 Kgs 18:8
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    8 He struck the Philistines, even to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

  • Judg 15:9
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    9 The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

  • Gen 38:21-22
    2 verses
    65%

    21 He asked the men of the place, Where is the prostitute who was by the roadside? They said, There has been no prostitute here.

    22 So he returned to Judah and said, I could not find her; and the men of the place said there has been no prostitute there.

  • Gen 34:2
    65%

    2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

  • Gen 38:15
    65%

    15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face.

  • Gen 38:2
    65%

    2 There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; he took her and went in to her.