Judges 16:21
19 And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.
20 Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
22 However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.
23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
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Compare
- BSB
- Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
- KJV
- But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
- WEB
- The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
- ASV
- And 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 did grind in the prison-house.
- DARBY
- And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazah, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he had to grind in the prison-house.
- BLB
- And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and they brought him down to Gaza, and they bound him with bronze shackles. And he was grinding in the house of the imprisoned.
- ÅB
- Da grep filistrene ham og stakk hans øyne ut; og de førte ham ned til Gasa og bandt ham med to kobberlenker, og han malte korn i fangehuset.
- OTB
- Filisterne grep ham, stakk ut øynene hans, og førte ham ned til Gaza. De bandt ham med bronse lenker og satte ham til å male korn i fengselet.
- B1930
- Da grep filistrene ham og stakk hans øine ut; og de førte ham ned til Gasa og bandt ham med to kobberlenker, og han malte korn i fangehuset.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 2:19
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
Read in contextProverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
Read in contextExodus 11:5
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
Read in contextIsaiah 47:2
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
Read in contextMatthew 24:41
Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
Read in contextProverbs 5:22
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Read in context2 Chronicles 33:11
So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
Read in contextPsalms 149:8
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,
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