Judges 14:8

World English Bible (2000)

After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

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  • Gen 29:21 : 21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
  • Matt 1:20 : 20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

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  • Judg 14:9-11
    3 verses
    87%

    9He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.

    10His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

    11It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

  • Judg 14:1-7
    7 verses
    80%

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

    2He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife."

    3Then his father and his mother said to him, "Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?" Samson said to his father, "Get her for me; for she pleases me well."

    4But 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.

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

    6The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.

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

  • Judg 14:17-20
    4 verses
    74%

    17She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

    18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" He said to them, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have found out my riddle."

    19The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. 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.

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
    74%

    28He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.

  • 1 Sam 14:25-27
    3 verses
    74%

    25All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

    26When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

    27But Jonathan didn't hear when his father commanded the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

  • Judg 15:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

    2Her 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."

    3Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."

    4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.

  • Judg 14:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14He said to them, "Out of the eater came forth food. Out of the strong came forth sweetness." They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.

    15It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband, that he may declare to 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]?"

  • 1 Kgs 13:23-26
    4 verses
    72%

    23It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

    24When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

    25Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him."

  • Prov 24:13
    70%

    13My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

  • 1 Sam 14:29
    70%

    29Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

  • Judg 15:15
    69%

    15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

  • Judg 16:4
    69%

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

  • Ezek 19:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

    6He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

  • Judg 16:1
    68%

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

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    68%

    29and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."

  • Nah 2:12
    68%

    12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    67%

    34David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

  • 2 Kgs 2:25
    67%

    25He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

  • Ezek 19:3
    67%

    3She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

  • Judg 15:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely 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 lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

  • Num 14:8
    67%

    8If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
    67%

    25So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

  • Judg 16:20
    67%

    20She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.

  • Prov 25:16
    67%

    16Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

  • Judg 16:14
    67%

    14She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

  • Judg 19:3
    67%

    3Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
    67%

    36Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you." As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.