Judges 16:31

World English Bible (2000)

Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 15:20 : 20 He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
  • Judg 13:2 : 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
  • Judg 13:25 : 25 The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
  • John 19:39-42 : 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds. 40 So they took Jesus' body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid. 42 Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
  • Josh 19:41 : 41 The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,

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    29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

    30 Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

  • Judg 15:20
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    20 He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

  • Judg 10:2-3
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    2 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

    3 After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

  • Judg 14:19
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    19 The 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.

  • Judg 12:7-10
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    7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.

    8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

    9 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.

    10 Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.

  • Josh 24:30
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    30 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

  • Judg 15:11-12
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    11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that 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, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves."

  • Judg 15:6-8
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    6 Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

    7 Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease."

    8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

  • Judg 8:32
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    32 Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  • 1 Kgs 13:30-31
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    30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!"

    31 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

  • Judg 2:9
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    9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

  • 1 Sam 25:1
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    1 Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
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    37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

  • Judg 13:24
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    24 The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

  • Judg 14:9-11
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    9 He 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 7:15-16
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    15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

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  • Judg 15:15-17
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    15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

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    2 He 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."

    3 Then 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."

    4 But 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.

    5 Then 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.

  • 1 Chr 10:12
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    12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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

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    3 Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

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  • Judg 12:14-15
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    21 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

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    27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

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