Judges 16:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Once Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEN SAMSON went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

Common English Bible

¹ One day Samson traveled to Gaza. While there, he saw a prostitute and had sex with her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ He also went into Gaza. And there he saw a harlot woman, and he entered to her.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman a harlot, and went in unto her.

Judges 16:1 Cross References

Genesis 10:19

And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

Proverbs 7:8

passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

Joshua 15:47

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Wadi of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coast.

Judges 1:18

Judah took Gaza with its territory, Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

Judges 14:1

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

Judges 16:2

The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” So they circled around and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They kept quiet all night, thinking, “Let us wait until the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”