Judges 14:11

Bible in Basic English

And he took thirty friends, and they were with him.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When the Philistines saw him, they brought thirty men to accompany him.

Hebrew Names Version
It happened, when they saw him, that 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.

Lexham English Bible
When they saw him, they took thirty companions, and they were with him.

English Standard Version
As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

New Century Version
When the people saw him, they sent thirty friends to be with him.

New English Translation
When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company.

Amplified Bible
When the people saw him, they brought thirty companions (wedding attendants) to be with him.

New American Standard Bible
When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when they sawe him, they brought thirtie companions to be with him.

Legacy Standard Bible
En toe hulle hom sien, neem hulle dertig vriende om by hom te wees.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
When the P'lishtim saw him, they provided thirty companions to be with him.

Darby Translation
And it came to pass when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions, and they were with him.

Easy-to-Read Version
When the Philistines saw that he was having a party, they sent 30 men to be with him.

George Lamsa Translation
And when they saw him, there came thirty men and became his groomsmen.

Good News Translation
When the Philistines saw him, they sent thirty young men to stay with him.

Literal Translation
And it happened when they saw him, they took thirty companions, and they were with him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan they sawe him, they gaue him thirtie companyons 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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whe they sawe him, they brought thirtie companions to be with him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

King James Version (1611)
And it came to passe when they saw him, that they brought thirtie companions to be with him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass when they saw him, that they took thirty guests, and they were with him.

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

Berean Standard Bible
And when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor whanne the citeseyns of that place hadden seyn hym, thei yauen to hym thretti felowis, whiche schulen be with hym.

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass when they see him, that they take thirty companions, and they are with him.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New King James Version
And it happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

New Living Translation
When the bride's parents saw him, they selected thirty young men from the town to be his companions.

New Life Bible
When the people saw him, they brought thirty friends to be with him.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass, because they feared him, that they took thirty companions, who remained with him.

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

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men. ¹¹ And he took thirty friends, and they were with him. ¹² And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing; ¹³ But if you are not able to give me the answer, then you will have to give me thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing. And they said to him, Put your hard question and let us see what it is. ¹⁴ And he said, Out of the taker of food came food, and out of the strong came the sweet. And at the end of three days they were still not able to give the answer. ¹⁵ So on the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Get from your husband the answer to his question by some trick or other, or we will have you and your father's house burned with fire; did you get us here to take all we have? ¹⁶ Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you? ¹⁷ And all the seven days of the feast she went on weeping over him; and on the seventh day he gave her the answer, because she gave him no peace; and she sent word of it to the children of her people. ¹⁸ Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question. ¹⁹ And the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and, attacking thirty men there, took their clothing from them, and gave it to the men who had given the answer to his hard question. Then, full of wrath, he went back to his father's house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

saw him: 1 Samuel 10:23, 1 Samuel 16:6

thirty: Matthew 9:15, John 3:29

Reciprocal: Job 41:6 - General Song of Solomon 8:13 - the companions Mark 2:19 - Can Luke 5:34 - the children

Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 14:16
And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.

Genesis 14:21
And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

Deuteronomy 28:31
Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

Deuteronomy 28:35
The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

Deuteronomy 28:51
He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass; when they saw him,.... That is, the Philistines, the citizens of Timnath, when they saw that he was come to consummate his marriage:

that they brought thirty companions to be with him; to be the bridegroom's men, or children of the bridechamber, as they are called, Matthew 9:15 or friends of the bridegroom, John 3:29 to keep him company during the nuptial feast: this they did according to custom, and in honour and respect unto him; though some think, and so Josephus l, that they were brought to be guards upon him, observing that he was a man of great might, strength, and courage, so that they were afraid of him, lest he should have some design upon them; but it is not certain that there was anything very visible or terrible in him, more than in another man, that showed him to be of extraordinary courage and strength, since it was but at times the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and as yet he had done nothing to their knowledge which showed him to be such; had they indeed known of his encounter with the lion, they might have had such thoughts of him, but this they knew nothing of.

l Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 6.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thirty companions - These were “the children of the bride-chamber” (Matthew 9:15; see Judges 14:20). From the number of them it may be inferred that Samson’s family was of some wealth and importance.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 14:11. They brought thirty companions — These are called in Scripture children of the bride-chamber, and friends of the bridegroom. See the whole of this subject particularly illustrated in the observations at the end, Clarke "John 3:25".