He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Judges 14:2 - New Revised Standard Version Then he came up, and told his father and mother, “I saw a Philistine woman at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And he came up and told his father and mother, I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife. American Standard Version (1901) And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. Common English Bible He went back home and told his father and mother, “A Philistine woman in Timnah caught my eye; now get her for me as a wife!” Catholic Public Domain Version he went up, and he told his father and his mother, saying: "I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. I ask that you take her to me as wife." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife. |
He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl to be my wife.”
King Jehoash of Israel sent word to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thornbush on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife’; but a wild animal of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thornbush.
Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.
Once Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw a Philistine woman.
But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among your kin, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, because she pleases me.”