Judges 14:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ After a while he returned to marry her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion and honey.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And after a while he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the body of the lion, and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

Common English Bible

⁸ After a while, he came back again to marry her. He turned aside to look at the lion’s remains, and there was a swarm of bees with honey inside the lion’s skeleton.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And after some days, returning to marry her, he turned aside so that he might see the carcass of the lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, with a honeycomb.

Judges 14:8 Cross References

Matthew 1:20

But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 29:21

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”

Judges 14:7

Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson.

Judges 14:9

He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest, having too much, you vomit it up.