Judges 13:18   (Read all of Judges 13)

He replied, "Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding. "

Judges 13:19   (Read all of Judges 13)

Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the Lord. And the Lord did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched:

Judges 14:1   (Read all of Judges 14)

Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman.

Judges 14:3   (Read all of Judges 14)

His father and mother replied, "Isn't there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me. She's the right one for me."

Judges 14:5   (Read all of Judges 14)

Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him.

Judges 14:6   (Read all of Judges 14)

The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.

Judges 14:10   (Read all of Judges 14)

Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men.

Judges 14:12   (Read all of Judges 14)

"Let me tell you a riddle," Samson said to them. "If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

Judges 14:13   (Read all of Judges 14)

If you can't tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes." "Tell us your riddle," they said. "Let's hear it."

Judges 14:15   (Read all of Judges 14)

On the fourth day, they said to Samson's wife, "Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father's household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?"

Judges 14:16   (Read all of Judges 14)

Then Samson's wife threw herself on him, sobbing, "You hate me! You don't really love me. You've given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer." "I haven't even explained it to my father or mother," he replied, "so why should I explain it to you?"

Judges 14:18   (Read all of Judges 14)

Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" Samson said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle."

Judges 15:1   (Read all of Judges 15)

Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, "I'm going to my wife's room." But her father would not let him go in.

Judges 15:2   (Read all of Judges 15)

"I was so sure you hated her," he said, "that I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead."

Judges 15:7   (Read all of Judges 15)

Samson said to them, "Since you've acted like this, I swear that I won't stop until I get my revenge on you."

Judges 15:10   (Read all of Judges 15)

The people of Judah asked, "Why have you come to fight us?" "We have come to take Samson prisoner," they answered, "to do to him as he did to us."

Judges 15:11   (Read all of Judges 15)

Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don't you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?" He answered, "I merely did to them what they did to me."

Judges 15:12   (Read all of Judges 15)

They said to him, "We've come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said, "Swear to me that you won't kill me yourselves."

Judges 15:13   (Read all of Judges 15)

"Agreed," they answered. "We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

Judges 15:18   (Read all of Judges 15)

Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, "You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"

Judges 16:5   (Read all of Judges 16)

The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, "See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver."

Judges 16:6   (Read all of Judges 16)

So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."

Judges 16:9   (Read all of Judges 16)

With men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

Judges 16:10   (Read all of Judges 16)

Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied."