◄ Judges 14:11 ►
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Good News Translation
When the Philistines saw him, they sent thirty young men to stay with him.

New Revised Standard Version
When the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Contemporary English Version
When the Philistines saw what Samson was like, they told 30 of their young men to stay with him at the party.

New American Bible
Out of their fear of him, they brought thirty men to be his companions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the citizens of that place saw him, they brought him thirty companions to be with him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when the citizens of that place saw him, they brought him thirty companions to be with him.

saw him

1 Samuel 10:23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders and upward.

1 Samuel 16:6 And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?

thirty

Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

John 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.

Context
Samson's Riddle
…10So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his son Samson: for so the young men used to do. 11And when the citizens of that place saw him, they brought him thirty companions to be with him.12And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats:…
Cross References
Judges 14:10
So his father went down to the woman, and made a feast for his son Samson: for so the young men used to do.

Judges 14:12
And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats:

Songs 5:1
Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

Judges 14:10
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