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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Judges 14 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/judges/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/judges/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Judges 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/13.htm" title="Judges 13">◄</a> Judges 14 <a href="../judges/15.htm" title="Judges 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Samson and the Woman from Timnah</h3><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_1"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.1" class="v7_14_1">1</span>One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he noticed a certain young Philistine woman. </span><span class="v7_14_2"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.2" class="v7_14_2">2</span>He went back home and told his father and mother, “There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_3"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.3" class="v7_14_3">3</span>But his father and mother asked him, “Why do you have to go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can't you find someone in our own clan, among all our people?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_3">But Samson told his father, “She is the one I want you to get for me. I like her.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_4"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.4" class="v7_14_4">4</span>His parents did not know that it was the <span class="nd">Lord</span> who was leading Samson to do this, for the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was looking for a chance to fight the Philistines. At this time the Philistines were ruling Israel.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_5"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.5" class="v7_14_5">5</span>So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother. As they were going through the vineyards there, he heard a young lion roaring. </span><span class="v7_14_6"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.6" class="v7_14_6">6</span>Suddenly the power of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> made Samson strong, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands, as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his parents what he had done.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_7"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.7" class="v7_14_7">7</span>Then he went and talked to the young woman, and he liked her. </span><span class="v7_14_8"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.8" class="v7_14_8">8</span>A few days later Samson went back to marry her. On the way he left the road to look at the lion he had killed, and he was surprised to find a swarm of bees and some honey inside the dead body. </span><span class="v7_14_9"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.9" class="v7_14_9">9</span>He scraped the honey out into his hands and ate it as he walked along. Then he went to his father and mother and gave them some. They ate it, but Samson did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the dead body of a lion.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_10"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.10" class="v7_14_10">10</span>His father went to the woman's house, and Samson gave a banquet there. This was a custom among the young men. </span><span class="v7_14_11"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.11" class="v7_14_11">11</span>When the Philistines saw him, they sent thirty young men to stay with him. </span><span class="v7_14_12"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.12-Judg.14.13" class="v7_14_12">12-13</span>Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle. I'll bet each one of you a piece of fine linen and a change of fine clothes that you can't tell me its meaning before the seven days of the wedding feast are over.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_12">“Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let's hear it.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_14"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.14" class="v7_14_14">14</span>He said,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v7_14_14">“Out of the eater came something to eat;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v7_14_14">Out of the strong came something sweet.”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v7_14_14">Three days later they had still not figured out what the riddle meant.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_15"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.15" class="v7_14_15">15</span>On the fourth<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.14.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> day they said to Samson's wife, “Trick your husband into telling us what the riddle means. If you don't, we'll set fire to your father's house and burn you with it.<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.14.15!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> You two invited us so that you could rob us, didn't you?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_16"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.16" class="v7_14_16">16</span>So Samson's wife went to him in tears and said, “You don't love me! You just hate me! You told my friends a riddle and didn't tell me what it means!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v7_14_16">He said, “Look, I haven't even told my father and mother. Why should I tell you?” </span><span class="v7_14_17"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.17" class="v7_14_17">17</span>She cried about it for the whole seven days of the feast. But on the seventh day he told her what the riddle meant, for she nagged him so about it. Then she told the Philistines. </span><span class="v7_14_18"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.18" class="v7_14_18">18</span>So on the seventh day, before Samson went into the bedroom,<a href="#fn" id="link_Judg.14.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the men of the city said to him,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v7_14_18">“What could be sweeter than honey?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v7_14_18">What could be stronger than a lion?”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v7_14_18">Samson replied,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v7_14_18">“If you hadn't been plowing with my cow,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v7_14_18">You wouldn't know the answer now.”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v7_14_19"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.19" class="v7_14_19">19</span>Suddenly the power of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> made him strong, and he went down to Ashkelon, where he killed thirty men, stripped them, and gave their fine clothes to the men who had solved the riddle. After that, he went back home, furious about what had happened, </span><span class="v7_14_20"><span class="reftext" id="Judg.14.20" class="v7_14_20">20</span>and his wife was given to the man that had been his best man at the wedding.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.15: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">fourth; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">seventh.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.15: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">set fire … you with it; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">burn you and your family.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.18: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">bedroom; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">sun.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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