Judges 14:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.”
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“One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 14:1 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 6:2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
- Genesis 34:1Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
- Genesis 38:12After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
- Joshua 15:10The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
- Joshua 19:43Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
- Judges 16:1One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
- 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
- Psalms 119:37Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
- 1 John 2:16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
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