Judges 14:20

Green's Literal Translation

And Samson's wife became his companion's, who had been his friend.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

Hebrew Names Version
But Shimshon's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

King James Version
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Lexham English Bible
And Samson's wife was given to his companion who was his best man.

English Standard Version
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

New Century Version
And Samson's wife was given to his best man.

New English Translation
Samson's bride was then given to his best man.

Amplified Bible
But Samson's wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.

New American Standard Bible
But Samson's wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Samsons wife was giuen to his companion, whom he had vsed as his friend.

Legacy Standard Bible
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

Contemporary English Version
The father of the bride had Samson's wife marry one of the thirty young men that had been at Samson's party.

Complete Jewish Bible
and his wife was given to the companion who had been best man at the wedding.

Darby Translation
And Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had made his friend.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Samson's wife was given to his best man.

George Lamsa Translation
And Samsons wife, whom he loved, was given to one of his groomsmen.

Good News Translation
and his wife was given to the man that had been his best man at the wedding.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for Samsons wife, she was geuen vnto one of his companyons, which belonged vnto him.

American Standard Version
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Bible in Basic English
But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But Samsons wyfe was geuen to one of his companions that he had taken vnto him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had had for his friend.

King James Version (1611)
But Samsons wife was giuen to his companion, whom hee had vsed as his friend.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the wife of Sampson was given to one of his friends, with whom he was on terms of friendship.

English Revised Version
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Berean Standard Bible
and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe his wijf took an hosebonde, oon of the frendis and keperis `of hir.

Young's Literal Translation
and Samson's wife becometh his companion's, who [is] his friend.

Update Bible Version
But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

Webster's Bible Translation
But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

World English Bible
But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

New King James Version
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

New Living Translation
So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson's best man at the wedding.

New Life Bible
Samson's wife was given to his friend who had been his best man at his wedding.

New Revised Standard
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the wife of Samson was given unto his companion who had served him as his friend.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But his wife took one of his friends and bridal companions for her husband.

Revised Standard Version
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But Samson's wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, for so the young men usually did. ¹¹ And it happened when they saw him, they took thirty companions, and they were with him. ¹² And Samson said to them, Please let me riddle a riddle to you. If declaring you declare it to me in the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I shall give you thirty linen blouses and thirty changes of garments. ¹³ And if you are not able to tell me, then you shall give me thirty linen blouses and thirty changes of garments. And they said to him, Riddle your riddle, and we shall hear it. ¹⁴ And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they were not able to declare the riddle in three days. ¹⁵ And it happened on the seventh day, they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called for us to make us poor? Is it not so? ¹⁶ And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You only hate me, and do not love me . You have riddled the riddle to the sons of my people, and you have not declared it to me. And he said toher, Behold, I have not declared it tomy father and to my mother, and shall I declare it to you? ¹⁷ And she wept before him the seven days on which they feasted. And it was on the seventh day, he told her, for she distressed him. And she told the riddle to the sons of her people. ¹⁸ And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day, before the sun went in, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, Unless you had plowedwith my heifer, you would not have found ¹⁹ And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him. And he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them, and took their plunder. And he gave the changes to those who told the riddle; and his angerglowed. And he went up to his father'shouse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

given to: Judges 15:2

his friend: Psalms 55:12, Psalms 55:13, Jeremiah 9:5, Micah 7:5, Matthew 26:49, Matthew 26:50, John 3:29, John 13:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:20 - his friend 1 Samuel 18:19 - Adriel 2 Samuel 13:3 - a friend

Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave.

Genesis 14:3
All these were joined together to the valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea.

Genesis 14:4
They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and struck the giants in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in the hills of Seir, as far as the oak of Paran, which is by the wilderness.

Genesis 14:9
with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal the king of the nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar; four kings with the five.

Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from smiting Chedorlaomer and the kings which were with him, to the valley of Shaveh, it being the valley of the king.

Genesis 14:19
And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth;

Genesis 24:27
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has not left off His kindness and His truth with my master, I being in the way, Jehovah guided me to the house of the brother of my master.

Genesis 28:22
and this stone which I have placed as a memorial pillar shall become the house of God; and all which You shall give to me, I will tithe the tenth to You.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Samson's wife was given to his companion,.... By her father, and with her consent, both being affronted and provoked by Samson leaving her, who judged her not only to be injured, but hereby discharged from him, and free to marry another:

and whom he had used as his friend; though there were thirty of them that were his companions, yet there was one of them that was the principal of them, and was the most intimate with him, whom he used in the most friendly manner, and admitted to a more free conversation than the rest, the same that is called the friend of the bridegroom, John 3:29 while the others were called the children of the bridechamber, Matthew 9:15. It is not unlikely that this person had too much intimacy with Samson's wife before, and so had the secret of the riddle from her, and so very readily married her, as soon as Samson departed; and all this furnished out an occasion and opportunity, which Samson sought for, to be revenged on the Philistines, as in the following chapter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His companion - Perhaps one of those mentioned in Judges 14:11. The transaction denotes loose notions of the sanctity of marriage among the Philistines. It should be noted carefully that the practical lesson against ungodly marriages comes out most strongly in this case and that the providential purpose which out of this evil brought discomfiture to the Philistines, has nothing to do with the right or wrong of Samson’s conduct.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 14:20. But Samson's wife was given to his companion — This was the same kind of person who is called the friend of the bridegroom, John 3:29. And it is very likely that she loved this person better than she loved her husband, and went to him as soon as Samson had gone to his father's house at Zorah. She might, however, have thought herself abandoned by him, and therefore took another; this appears to have been the persuasion of her father, Judges 15:2. But her betraying his secret and his interests to his enemies was a full proof he was not very dear to her; though, to persuade him to the contrary, she shed many crocodile tears; see Judges 14:16. He could not keep his own secret, and he was fool enough to suppose that another would be more faithful to him than he was to himself. Multitudes complain of the treachery of friends betraying their secrets, &c., never considering that they themselves have been their first betrayers, in confiding to others what they pretend to wish should be a secret to the whole world! If a man never let his secret out of his own bosom, it is impossible that he should ever be betrayed.