Judges 16:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

2 Kings 25:7

And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:11

Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

Psalm 149:8

To bind their king's with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;

Exodus 11:5

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Proverbs 2:19

None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones, and grind meal: remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

Jeremiah 39:7

Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Lamentations 5:13

The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.

Numbers 16:14

Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

Matthew 24:41

two women shall be grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.

Judges 16:20

And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself. But he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.

Judges 16:22

Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.