Judges 16:15

Then she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? these three times hast thou mocked me, and hast not told me in what is thy great strength.

Darby Translation

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

14And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and tore out the pin of the beam, and the web.

16And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death;

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Cross References

Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.

Judges 14:16And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not. Thou hast propounded the riddle to the children of my people, and hast not explained it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not explained it to my father nor my mother, and shall I explain it to thee?

2 Samuel 16:17And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why didst thou not go with thy friend?

Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 23:26My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

John 14:15If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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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