Judges 16:1
Good News Translation
One day Samson went to the Philistine city of Gaza, where he met a prostitute and went to bed with her.

New Revised Standard Version
Once Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to her.

Contemporary English Version
One day while Samson was in Gaza, he saw a prostitute and went to her house to spend the night.

New American Bible
Once Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and visited her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went in unto her.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went in unto her.

Gaza.

2000 inhabitants.

Genesis 10:19 And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.

Joshua 15:47 Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza with its towns and villages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea that is the border thereof.

an harlot.

Genesis 38:16-18 And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt thou give me to enjoy my company? . . .

Ezra 9:1,2 And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites. . . .

Context
Samson Escapes Gaza
1He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman, a harlot, and went in unto her.2And when the Philistines had heard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him, setting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the night in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went out.…
Cross References
Joshua 15:47
Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza with its towns and villages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea that is the border thereof.

Judges 16:2
And when the Philistines had heard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him, setting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the night in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went out.

Judges 15:20
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