Judges 16:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ But the Philistines laid hold of him, bored out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with [two] bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

Common English Bible

²¹ So the Philistines captured him, put out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze chains, and he worked the grinding mill in the prison.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And when the Philistines had seized him, they immediately plucked out his eyes. And they led him, bound in chains, to Gaza. And enclosing him in a prison, they made him work a millstone.

Judges 16:21 Cross References

Proverbs 2:19

those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken, and one will be left.

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones and grind meal; remove your veil; strip off your robe; uncover your legs; pass through the rivers.

Proverbs 14:14

The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.

Exodus 11:5

Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill and all the firstborn of the livestock.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Psalm 149:8

to bind their kings with fetters and their nobles with chains of iron,

2 Chronicles 33:11

Therefore the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh captive in manacles, bound him with fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:7

They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out the eyes of Zedekiah; they bound him in fetters and took him to Babylon.

Numbers 16:14

It is clear you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”

Judges 16:20

Then she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” When he awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him.

Judges 16:22

But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

Jeremiah 39:7

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men are compelled to grind, and boys stagger under loads of wood.