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And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you keep me I will not take of your food; but if you will make a burned offering, let it be offered to the Lord. For it had not come into Manoah's mind that he was the angel of the Lord.

And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

enquiring of GodWhat Is God's Name?

For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

ProstrationCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going Up

But his wife said unto him, "If the LORD would kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering of our hands; neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would have told us as he hath of things to come."

God KillingMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsGod's Things RevealedGod Killing Individuals

And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Inspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Means OfMoving On

And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

Marriage, Customs ConcerningWedding FeastsLeaving Parents For Spouse

Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

LionsVineyardChampionsIn Danger From Lions

And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

Power, HumanStrength, SpiritualTranceBrawnAnimals Torn To PiecesDeliverance From LionsThose Who Did Not Tell

When he came back later to marry her, he turned aside to observe the lion's carcass. Amazingly, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, complete with honey.

Carcass, Literal UseBeesInsectsHoneyCorpses Of Animals

And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

Food DecayingThose Who Did Not Tell

And when his father was come unto the woman, Samson made there a feast, for so used the young men to do.

CustomFeastingBridegroomCeremoniesCelebrationsBanquets, Events CelebratedMarriage, Customs Concerning

And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Marriage, Customs ConcerningWeddingsMarriage, The BridegroomThirty

And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

Strength Of AnimalsAnimals Eating PeopleSweetness

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?

EnticementThe Fourth Day Of The WeekBurning PeopleEnticingBecoming PoorDay 4

So Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me and don’t love me! You told my people the riddle, but haven’t explained it to me.”

“Look,” he said, “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

CryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

Yielding To TemptationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysGiving InformationDay 7People Mourning Catastrophenagging

And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

ThirtyPeople Giving ClothesAngry PeopleNumbers Of Foreigners KilledGifts Of Supernatural Strengthcrusades

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

HarvestVisitingWheatSexual Union Intended

Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

Sons In LawBurning PeopleWho Is The Doer?Transferring Wives

Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and made a raid on Lehi.

And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

Repaying Evil For EvilTying UpWhy Do You Do This?

And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

Restraints From KillingTying UpPeople Bound By Oaths

And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.

FlaxArmsPower, HumanShoutingTranceGroups Shouting

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.

But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

Splitting RocksGod Providing WaterPartridgesPlaces To This Dayrevival

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

DawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Love, In RelationshipsMen And Women Who Loved

And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

CoinageEnticementEnticingTying Up

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me, where does your great strength come from? How could someone tie you up and make you helpless?”

TemptressesTying UpWomen's Strength

Now she had men waiting secretly in the inner room; and she said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And the cords were broken by him as a twist of thread is broken when touched by a flame. So the secret of his strength did not come to light.

Ambush

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

Asceticism, TypesIrritationTroubling Individualsnagging

That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.

AbstinenceAsceticism, People PracticingBeardsHairsHeadsKnivesShavingYielding To TemptationSeparated To GodLong HairFrom The WombHair

And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

BetrayalRulersBetrayal, Example Of

And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, - and took him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze, and it came to pass that he used to grind in the prison.

disabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.

Pagan GodsFalse GodsCelebrationsGiven Into One's HandsDagon

And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

AmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationRevelryMaking FunSports

And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on whom he had sent destruction in his life.

Burials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

TombsCemetery20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

And Micah said to him, "From where do you come?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place."

Where From?

So Micah replied, "Come live with me! You can be a spiritual father to me, as well as a priest. I'll pay you ten silver coins a year, plus a priestly uniform and an income." So the descendant of Levi moved in.

CoinageHiringSpiritual FathersPeople Giving ClothesUnnamed Priests

And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

SpiesFive PeopleSpying

When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?

VoicesAsking Particular QuestionsRecognising Things

Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

SearchingSecurityMannersMagistratesQuietnessFar From HereMen Of PeaceRelationships And Dating

And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?

And they said to them, "Come, let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and [it is] very good. Will you do nothing? Do not hesitate to go, to enter, to possess the land.

When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

Given Into One's Handsland

And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.

Greetings

And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

Dishonesty, Examples OfFive PeopleSix To Seven HundredStanding In The GatewaySix Hundred And Above

And these came in to Micah's house, and they will take the carved thing, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten thing; and the priest will say to them, What are ye doing?

Household GodsCarvingWhat Do You Do?

And they said to him, "Keep quiet, put your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?"

Spiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

Then was the heart of the priest glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, - and came into the midst of the people.

Robbing Gods

When they had gone some way from the house of Micah, the men from the houses near Micah's house came together and overtook the children of Dan,

Overtaking

And they shouted to the Danites, who turned round and said to Micah, "What ails you that you come with such a company?"

What Is The Matter?

And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

ConflagrationsBurning CitiesMen Of Peace

No one came to the rescue because the city was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with anyone. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites rebuilt the city and occupied it.

ValleysFar From HereRebuilding Named CitiesBuilding Relationships

And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.

ConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of asses. And he came to her father's house; and when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.

Persuasion

And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.

SonsThe Fourth Day Of The WeekThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Who DelayedDay 4

And, when he arose early on the morning of the fifth day, to go, the father of the damsel said - Come now, stay thy heart, and tarry ye until the decline of the day. And they did eat, both of them.

The Fifth Day Of The WeekThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Who DelayedDay 5

And, when the man rose up to go - he and his concubine and his young man, - his father-in-law, the father of the damsel, said to him, Come now, see! the day hath sunk down towards evening, come now! tarry the night; lo! the day goeth down, tarry the night here, and let thy heart be glad, so shall ye rise early to-morrow for your journey, and thou shalt go thy way to thine own home.

NightMan's Action Tomorrow

But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.

People Unwilling

And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

Staying Temporarily

They stopped there and decided to spend the night in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.

Hospitality, Examples OfInhospitalityCity SquaresNot Welcoming PeopleStaying Temporarily

And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

EveningMen Working

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfarer in the open square of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? and whence do you come?"

Where From?Where To?

And he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of E'phraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah; and I am going to my home; and nobody takes me into his house.

Not Welcoming People

Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

VulgarityCrude LanguageDecadenceHomosexualityKnockingSexual Union IntendedAbuse

And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

Lordship, Human And Divine

But the men would not give ear to him: so the man took his woman and sent her out to them; and they took her by force, using her for their pleasure all night till the morning; and when dawn came they let her go.

Cruelty, examples ofActing All Night

Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.

DaybreakPeople TumblingAt Daybreak

And her lord will rise in the morning and will open the doors of the house and will come forth to go to his way, and behold, the woman his concubine, fallen at the door of the house, and her hands upon the threshold.

And he said to her, Get up and let us be going; but there was no answer; so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.

Carrying Dead BodiesGet Up!Others Not Answering

And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

KnifesPeople Cut In PiecesTwelve Thingsmistresscutting

And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.

Unique Events

Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah.

CongregationShrinesAssembling IsraelUnified PeopleAll Peoplecrusades

And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

Staying Temporarily

And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead.

LewdnessAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

A Tenth Of PeoplePeople Providing Food

That's how the army of Israel came to be gathered together to attack the city, united as a single unit.

Fellowship, In Christian ServiceUnity, Of God's PeopleUnified PeopleNations Unitedgathering

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?

And the Benjaminites came together out of the cities to Gib'e-ah, to go out to battle against the people of Israel.

Civil War

And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

Seven To Nine HundredTwenty Thousand And Up

And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

Twenty Thousand And UpKilling Within IsraelDefeat Of God's People

And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

Fighting One Another

That same day the Benjaminites came out from Gibeah to meet them and slaughtered an additional 18,000 Israelites on the field; all were armed men.

ConfrontationEleven To Nineteen ThousandKilling Within IsraelDefeat Of God's People

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

Fasting, Nature OfAsceticism, TypesPrayer, Practicalities OfSacrifice, In OtUnhappinessWeepingArk Of The Covenant, EventsAction Until EveningFasting

And the sons of Benjamin come out to meet the people; they have been drawn away out of the city, and begin to smite some of the people -- wounded as time by time, in the highways (of which one is going up to Beth-El, and the other to Gibeah in the field), are about thirty men of Israel.

ThirtyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesKilling Within Israel

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

Tens Of Thousands

And the ambush came quickly and advanced against Gibeah, and it {put the whole city to the sword}.

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

Turning One's Back

Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.

Eleven To Nineteen Thousand

And they turned and fled to the wilderness ward and unto the rock of pomegranates. And the other slew by the way of the rest of them, five thousand men, and sticked unto them until they came to Gidom, and slew two thousand more of them.

Two ThousandFive ThousandOvertaking

So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.

Twenty Thousand And Up

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

Burning CitiesBoth Men And Animals Killed

And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

ShrinesSittingVoicesWeepingAction Until Evening

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