Judges 15:1
Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
2 “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
- KJV
- But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
- WEB
- 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 allow him to go in.
- ASV
- But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
- DARBY
- And it came to pass after a time, in the days of the wheat-harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats. And he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber; but her father would not suffer him to go in.
- BLB
- And it came to pass after some days, in the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats, and he said, “Let me go in to my wife in the inner chamber.” And her father would not permit him to go in.
- ÅB
- En tid etter, i hvetehøstens dager, ville Samson se til sin hustru og hadde med seg et kje, og han sa: La meg få komme inn i kammeret til min hustru! Men hennes far ville ikke gi ham lov til å gå inn
- OTB
- Etter en tid, under hvetehøsten, gikk Samson for å besøke sin kone, og han hadde med seg en ung geit. Han sa: "Jeg vil gå inn til min kones kammer." Men hennes far tillot ham ikke å gå inn.
- B1930
- Nogen tid efter, i hvetehøstens dager, vilde Samson se til sin hustru og hadde med sig et kje, og han sa: La mig få komme inn i kammeret til min hustru! Men hennes far vilde ikke gi ham lov til å gå inn
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 38:17
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
Read in contextLuke 15:29
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
Read in contextGenesis 29:21
Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
Read in contextGenesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
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