Judges 16:21 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 16:21

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

KJV

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ASV

And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

WEB

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.

YLT

And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.

DBT

And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazah, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he had to grind in the prison-house.

About this book

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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Cross-references

28 verses on the floor

Proverbs 2:19
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Exodus 11:5
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Matthew 24:41
Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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If we sleep in the lap of our lusts, we shall certainly wake in the hands of the Philistines. It is probable they had promised Delilah not to kill him, but they took an effectual course to disable him. The first thing they did, when they had him in their hands and found they could manage him, was to put out his eyes, by applying fire to them, says the Arabic version.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

His security was made doubly sure by his being bound with fetters of brass (copper), not of leather, like other captives. he did grind in the prison-house--This grinding with hand-millstones being the employment of menials, he was set to it as the deepest degradation.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JDG 16:21PRO 14:14 GAL 6:8
JDG 16:21PRO 14:14 PRO 12:14
JDG 16:21PRO 14:14 HEB 3:12
JDG 16:21ISA 47:2 EXO 11:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 16:21PRO 14:14 JER 8:5
JDG 16:21PRO 2:19 ECC 7:26
JDG 16:21EXO 11:5 PSA 78:51
JDG 16:21PRO 14:14 JER 2:19

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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