Category: Judges

American Standard Version (ASV):
Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

King James Version (KJV):
Now [there were] men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

King James Version (KJV):
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength [lieth], and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

King James Version (KJV):
And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

King James Version (KJV):
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.

King James Version (KJV):
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

King James Version (KJV):
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put [them] upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that [is] before Hebron.

American Standard Version (ASV):
[ And it was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] till morning light, then we will kill him.

King James Version (KJV):
[And it was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed [him] in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

King James Version (KJV):
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

King James Version (KJV):
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

American Standard Version (ASV):
But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.

King James Version (KJV):
But God clave an hollow place that [was] in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which [is] in Lehi unto this day.