Judges 15:2

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.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 14:20 : 20 and Samson's wife becometh his companion's, who `is' his friend.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 `I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved `me' many things to do,
  • Gen 38:14 : 14 and she turneth aside the garments of her widowhood from off her, and covereth herself with a vail, and wrappeth herself up, and sitteth in the opening of Enayim, which `is' by the way to Timnath, for she hath seen that Shelah hath grown up, and she hath not been given to him for a wife.
  • Judg 14:16 : 16 And Samson's wife weepeth for it, and saith, `Thou hast only hated me, and hast not loved me; the riddle thou hast put forth to the sons of my people -- and to me thou hast not declared it;' and he saith to her, `Lo, to my father and to my mother I have not declared `it' -- and to thee I declare `it'!'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 15:1
    82%

    1And it cometh to pass, after `some' days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, `I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;' and her father hath not permitted him to go in,

  • Judg 14:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,

    2and cometh up and declareth to his father, and to his mother, and saith, `A woman I have seen in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines; and now, take her for me for a wife.'

    3And his father saith to him -- also his mother, `Is there not among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that thou art going to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?' and Samson saith unto his father, `Take her for me, for she is right in mine eyes.'

  • Deut 22:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;

    17and lo, he hath laid actions of words, saying, I have not found to thy daughter tokens of virginity -- and these `are' the tokens of the virginity of my daughter! and they have spread out the garment before the elders of the city.

  • Judg 14:19-20
    2 verses
    77%

    19And the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and he goeth down to Ashkelon, and smiteth of them thirty men, and taketh their armour, and giveth the changes to those declaring the riddle; and his anger burneth, and he goeth up to the house of his father;

    20and Samson's wife becometh his companion's, who `is' his friend.

  • Judg 15:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6And the Philistines say, `Who hath done this?' And they say, `Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;' and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.

    7And Samson saith to them, `Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

  • Judg 15:3
    76%

    3And Samson saith of them, `I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing with them evil.'

  • Judg 14:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15And it cometh to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson's wife, `Entice thy husband, that he declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and the house of thy father with fire; to possess us have ye called for us? is it not?'

    16And Samson's wife weepeth for it, and saith, `Thou hast only hated me, and hast not loved me; the riddle thou hast put forth to the sons of my people -- and to me thou hast not declared it;' and he saith to her, `Lo, to my father and to my mother I have not declared `it' -- and to thee I declare `it'!'

    17And she weepeth for it the seven days `in' which their banquet hath been, and it cometh to pass on the seventh day that he declareth `it' to her, for she hath distressed him; and she declareth the riddle to the sons of her people.

  • Gen 24:38
    73%

    38If not -- unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

  • Judg 19:3
    72%

    3And her husband riseth and goeth after her, to speak unto her heart, to bring her back, and his young man `is' with him, and a couple of asses; and she bringeth him into the house of her father, and the father of the young woman seeth him, and rejoiceth to meet him.

  • Deut 22:14
    72%

    14and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

  • Gen 34:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11And Shechem saith unto her father, and unto her brethren, `Let me find grace in your eyes, and that which ye say unto me, I give;

    12multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'

  • Judg 14:7
    72%

    7And he goeth down and speaketh to the woman, and she is right in the eyes of Samson;

  • Gen 12:19
    72%

    19Why hast thou said, She `is' my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.'

  • Judg 16:15
    72%

    15And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power `is'.'

  • Gen 20:12
    71%

    12and also, truly she is my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becometh my wife;

  • Gen 38:16
    71%

    16and he turneth aside unto her by the way, and saith, `Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee,' (for he hath not known that she `is' his daughter-in-law); and she saith, `What dost thou give to me, that thou mayest come in unto me?'

  • Gen 34:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8And Hamor speaketh with them, saying, `Shechem, my son, his soul hath cleaved to your daughter; give her, I pray you, to him for a wife,

    9and join ye in marriage with us; your daughters ye give to us, and our daughters ye take to yourselves,

  • Judg 11:36-38
    3 verses
    71%

    36And she saith unto him, `My father -- thou hast opened thy mouth unto Jehovah, do to me as it hath gone out from thy mouth, after that Jehovah hath done for thee vengeance on thine enemies, on the Bene-Ammon.'

    37And she saith unto her father, `Let this thing be done to me; desist from me two months, and I go on, and have gone down on the hills, and I weep for my virginity -- I and my friends.'

    38And he saith, `Go;' and he sendeth her away two months, and she goeth, she and her friends, and she weepeth for her virginity on the hills;

  • Exod 22:17
    71%

    17if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, money he doth weigh out according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Judg 16:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4And it cometh to pass afterwards that he loveth a woman in the valley of Sorek, and her name `is' Delilah,

    5and the princes of the Philistines come up unto her, and say to her, `Entice him, and see wherein his great power `is', and wherein we are able for him -- and we have bound him to afflict him, and we -- we give to thee, each one, eleven hundred silverlings.'

  • Judg 14:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10And his father goeth down unto the woman, and Samson maketh there a banquet, for so the young men do;

    11and it cometh to pass when they see him, that they take thirty companions, and they are with him.

  • Exod 21:9
    70%

    9`And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.

  • Ezek 16:45
    70%

    45Thy mother's daughter thou `art', Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou `art', Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother `is' a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Deut 21:15
    70%

    15`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;

  • 2 Sam 13:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11and she bringeth nigh unto him to eat, and he layeth hold on her, and saith to her, `Come, lie with me, my sister.'

    12And she saith to him, `Nay, my brother, do not humble me, for it is not done so in Israel; do not this folly.

  • Judg 21:22
    69%

    22and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us `by' them, for we have not taken `to' each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time `that' ye are guilty.'

  • Gen 34:4
    69%

    4And Shechem speaketh unto Hamor his father, saying, `Take for me this damsel for a wife.'

  • 2 Sam 13:16
    69%

    16And she saith to him, `Because of the circumstances this evil is greater than the other that thou hast done with me -- to send me away;' and he hath not been willing to hearken to her,

  • Judg 15:12
    69%

    12And they say to him, `To bind thee we have come down -- to give thee into the hand of the Philistines.' And Samson saith to them, `Swear to me, lest ye fall upon me yourselves.'