Judges 16:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” He strained with all his might, and the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So those he killed at his death were more than those he had killed during his life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ And Samson cried, Let me die with the Philistines! And he bowed himself mightily, and the house fell upon the princes and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than they whom he slew in his life.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life.

Common English Bible

³⁰ And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He strained with all his might, and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people who were in it. So it turned out that he killed more people in his death than he did during his life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ he said, "May my life die with the Philistines." And when he had shaken the pillars strongly, the house fell upon all the leaders, and the rest of the multitude who were there. And he killed many more in his death than he had killed before in his life.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude that was there. And he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life.

Judges 16:30 Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Job 31:3

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 62:3

How long will you assail a person, will you batter your victim, all of you, as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Matthew 16:25

For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Acts 20:24

But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Philippians 2:17

But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the service of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice together with all of you;

Philippians 2:30

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.

Philippians 2:8

he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.

Colossians 2:15

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Judges 14:19

Then the spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men of the town, took their spoil, and gave the festal garments to those who had explained the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.

Judges 15:15

Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.

Judges 15:8

He struck them down hip and thigh with a massive defeat, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Judges 16:29

And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.

Judges 16:31

Then his kindred and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.