Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”

  • KJV King James Version

    And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And her father said: 'I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion; is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.'

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Cross-references (4)

Passages linked to Judges 15:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Judges 14:20 But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.
  • Genesis 38:14 She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
  • Judges 14:16 Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
  • Acts 26:9 “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 15:2 And her father said, I verily thought…

Jdg 15:2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is] not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

Ver. 2. I verily thought.] But he should have made sure of that; which because he did not, it cost him and his daughter their lives.

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“ Differ: habent parvae commoda magna morae. ”

Is not her younger sister fairer?] Heb., Better: but never the better for her beauty, if, with Aurelia Orestilla, the Roman lady, she had nothing else to commend her. {a}

“ Forma bonum fragile est. ” - Ovid.

Take her, I pray thee, instead of her.] This man made nothing of incest: the Pope frequently dispenseth with it, Lege nimirum canina: but Samson abhorred the motion, according to Lev 18:18.

{a} Sallust.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And her father said, I verily thought that thou…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Hated her - Because thou didst desert her: but…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. Thou hadst utterly hated her] As he…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 15:2. That thou hadst utterly hated her —…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain I gave her - In marriage. Samson had probably…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sister. Jacob married two sisters, and such marriages were…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 2. Utterly hated her — He surely had reason…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) Verily thought . . . utterly hated.—In the…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Is not her younger sister, etc. Samson"s father-in.law might…

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