Judges 14:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And he came up and told his father and mother, I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

Common English Bible

² He went back home and told his father and mother, “A Philistine woman in Timnah caught my eye; now get her for me as a wife!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² he went up, and he told his father and his mother, saying: "I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. I ask that you take her to me as wife."

Judges 14:2 Cross References

Genesis 34:4

So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl to be my wife.”

Genesis 21:21

He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 14:9

King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.

Genesis 38:6

Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn; her name was Tamar.

Judges 14:1

Once Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw a Philistine woman.

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among your kin or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, because she pleases me.”

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.