Judges 13:24 The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the LORD blessed him,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the LORD blessed him,

English Standard Version
And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the LORD blessed him.

New American Standard Bible
Then the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the child grew up and the LORD blessed him.

King James Bible
And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.

International Standard Version
Later on, the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew strong and the LORD blessed him.

American Standard Version
And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.

Darby Bible Translation
And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.

Young's Literal Translation
And the woman beareth a son, and calleth his name Samson, and the youth groweth, and Jehovah doth bless him,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:24,25 The Spirit of the Lord began to move Samson when a youth. This was evidence that the Lord blessed him. Where God gives his blessing, he gives his Spirit to qualify for the blessing. Those are blessed indeed in whom the Spirit of grace begins to work in the days of their childhood. Samson drank no wine or strong drink, yet excelled in strength and courage, for he had the Spirit of God moving him; therefore be not drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Jud 13:24, 25. Samson Born.

24. the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson—The birth of this child of promise, and the report of the important national services he was to render, must, from the first, have made him an object of peculiar interest and careful instruction.