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Judges · read by Marvin Derksen
24 verses, in order. Only the verses Marvin read aloud are shown.
Judges 13
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Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines."Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
Judges 14
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One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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So he returned and told his father and mother, "I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife."Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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But his father and mother replied, "Can't you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?" But Samson told his father, "Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes."Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
Judges 16
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One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, "Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver."Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued."Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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"How can you say, 'I love you,'" she asked, "when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!"Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Samson told her all that was in his heart: "My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man."Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: "Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Then Samson called out to the LORD: "O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes."Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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And Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other,Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world
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Then Samson's brothers and his father's family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.Read from KJV · Samson: link with heaven, love for the world