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Judges 14:1
Judges 14:1 is verse 1 of Judges chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
King James Version
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
World English Bible
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
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Judges 14:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible
1 One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
2 So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
3 But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
Genesis 38:13When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
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,
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 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
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.