Judges 16:15

And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.

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In The King James Version

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

In Context

14So while he was sleeping she got the seven twists of his hair worked into her cloth and fixed with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. Then awaking from his sleep, he got up quickly, pulling up cloth and machine together.

16So day after day she gave him no peace, for ever questioning him till his soul was troubled to death.

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Cross References

Genesis 29:20And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

Judges 14:16Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you?

2 Samuel 16:17And Absalom said, Is this your love for your friend? why did you not go with your friend?

Proverbs 2:16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

Proverbs 23:26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

John 14:15If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

Matthew Henry on Judges 16:5-18

Delilah's Treachery. ( b. c. 1120.) 4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. 6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith… Read the whole commentary →

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