Judges 16:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Exod 11:5 : 5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
  • Isa 47:2 : 2 Take the millstones and grind meal; uncover your hair, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
  • Matt 24:41 : 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and the other left.
  • 2 Kgs 25:7 : 7 And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
  • 2 Chr 33:11 : 11 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh among the thorns, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
  • Ps 107:10-12 : 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High: 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help.
  • Ps 149:8 : 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
  • Prov 2:19 : 19 None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied from himself.

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  • Judg 16:22-31
    10 verses
    78%

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

    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."

    25So 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.

    26Then Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars which support the temple, so that I can lean on them."

    27Now 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.

    28Then Samson called to the LORD, saying, "O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes."

    29And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the other on his left.

    30Then Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.

    31And his brothers and all his father's house came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.

  • Judg 16:17-20
    4 verses
    77%

    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."

    18When 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.

    19Then 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.

    20She 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.

  • Judg 16:1-14
    14 verses
    72%

    1Then Samson went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and he went in to her.

    2And 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."

    3But 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.

    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."

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

    7And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have never been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

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

    9Now 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.

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

    11So he said to her, "If they bind me securely with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

    12Therefore 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.

    13Delilah 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."

    14So 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.

  • Judg 15:5-15
    11 verses
    71%

    5When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olives.

    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.

    8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

    9The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

    10The men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? They answered, We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.

    11Then 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.

    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.

    13They said to him, No; but we will bind you tightly and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

    14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes on his arms became like flax burned with fire, and his bonds loosed from his hands.

    15He found a new jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed a thousand men with it.

  • Jer 52:11
    69%

    11Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

  • Jer 39:7
    69%

    7Moreover, he blinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with chains to carry him to Babylon.

  • Judg 15:3
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    3Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be blameless toward the Philistines, though I cause them harm.

  • 2 Kgs 18:8
    68%

    8He struck the Philistines, even to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

  • Judg 14:1
    67%

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

  • 2 Kgs 25:7
    67%

    7And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

  • 1 Sam 30:16
    66%

    16And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 28:18
    66%

    18The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, Ajalon, and Gederoth, Shocho with its villages, Timnah with its villages, Gimzo also and its villages, and they dwelt there.

  • Judg 13:1
    66%

    1And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

  • Judg 14:4
    66%

    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.

  • Judg 14:19
    66%

    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.