Samson
Male · b. 1090 BC · d. 1101 BC
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- Manoah
Named in 38 verses
- Judges 13:24 The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
- Judges 14:1 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
- Judges 14:3 Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncir
- Judges 14:5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
- Judges 14:7 He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
- Judges 14:10 His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
- Judges 14:12 Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thir
- Judges 14:15 On the seventh day, 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.
- Judges 14:16 Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He
- Judges 14:20 But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.
- Judges 15:1 But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t a
- Judges 15:3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
- Judges 15:4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
- Judges 15:6 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.
- Judges 15:7 Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
- Judges 15:10 The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
- Judges 15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is
- Judges 15:12 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
- Judges 15:16 Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
- Judges 16:1 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
- Judges 16:2 The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wai
- Judges 16:3 Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and
- Judges 16:6 Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
- Judges 16:7 Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
- Judges 16:9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it to
- Judges 16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
- Judges 16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke th
- Judges 16:13 Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of
- Judges 16:14 She 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
- Judges 16:20 She 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 k
- Judges 16:23 The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our e
- Judges 16:25 When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. Th
- Judges 16:26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.”
- Judges 16:27 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
- Judges 16:28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Phili
- Judges 16:29 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.
- Judges 16:30 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 in it. So t
- Hebrews 11:32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets—