Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And it will be when they saw him, and they will take thirty companions, and they will be with him.
New American Standard Bible
When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
King James Version
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Holman Bible
When the Philistines saw him, they brought 30 men to accompany him.
International Standard Version
When they saw him, they brought 30 companions to accompany him.
A Conservative Version
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
American Standard Version
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Amplified
When the people saw him, they brought thirty companions (wedding attendants) to be with him.
Bible in Basic English
And he took thirty friends, and they were with him.
Darby Translation
And when the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
King James 2000
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When they saw him, they took thirty companions, and they were with him.
Modern King James verseion
And it happened when they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And when her friends saw him, they brought thirty companions to bear fellowship.
NET Bible
When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company.
New Heart English Bible
It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
The Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass, because they feared him, that they took thirty companions, who remained with him.
Webster
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
World English Bible
It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Youngs Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass when they see him, that they take thirty companions, and they are with him.
Interlinear
Ra'ah
Laqach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 14:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Samson Marries
10 And his father will go down to the woman; and Samson will make there a drinking, for so did the young men. 11 And it will be when they saw him, and they will take thirty companions, and they will be with him. 12 And Samson will say to them, I will propose to you an enigma: if announcing, ye shall announce it to me in seven days of the drinking, and ye find out, and I will give to you thirty wide garments and thirty exchanges of garments:
Cross References
1 Samuel 10:23
And they will run and and take him from thence, and he will stand in the midst of the people; and he will be high above all the people,. from his shoulders and above.
1 Samuel 16:6
And it will be in their coming, and he will see Eliab, and he said, Surely, before Jehovah his Messiah.
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, The sons of the nuptial chamber cannot mourn inasmuch as the bridegroom is with them; but the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast.
John 3:29
He having the bride is the bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom, standing and hearing him, rejoices with joy for the bridegroom's voice: therefore this my joy has been completed.