Samson
11 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
10 sections
- A Danite, Son of Manoah
- A Judge (Leader, Hero) of Israel
- Cohabits with Delilah, a Prostitute; Her Machinations with the Philistines to Overcome Him
- Desires a Philistine Woman for his Wife; Kills a Lion
- His Great Strength
- His Marriage Feast and the Riddle Propounded
- Kills One-Thousand Philistines with the Jawbone of a Donkey
- Kills Thirty Philistines
- Miraculously Supplied with Water
- Wife of, Estranged
A Danite, Son of Manoah
- Judges 13:2–7 Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children. …
- Judges 13:24–25 So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him. …
A Judge (Leader, Hero) of Israel
- Judges 16:31 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.
Cohabits with Delilah, a Prostitute; Her Machinations with the Philistines to Overcome Him
- Judges 16:1–20 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her. …
Desires a Philistine Woman for his Wife; Kills a Lion
- Judges 14:1–7 One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman. …
His Great Strength
- Judges 15:7–14 And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.” …
- Hebrews 11:32 And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
His Marriage Feast and the Riddle Propounded
- Judges 14:8–19 When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey. …
Kills One-Thousand Philistines with the Jawbone of a Donkey
- Judges 15:13–17 “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock. …
Kills Thirty Philistines
- Judges 14:19 Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned …
Miraculously Supplied with Water
- Judges 15:18–19 And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?” …
Wife of, Estranged
- Judges 14:20 and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
- Judges 15:1–2 Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter. …
Related topics
Samson is Blinded by the Philistines and Confined to Hard Labor in PrisonSamson is Avenged for the Estrangement of his WifeDelilahLehiFriendsBetting by Samson
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.