Judges 16:4

After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

In Context

3But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts thereof, and the bolt, and laying them on his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh towards Hebron.

5And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may be able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing? and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: m and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.

Proverbs 23:27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

Matthew Henry on Judges 16:2-4

Samson's Escape from Gaza. ( b. c. 1120.) 1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her. 2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. 3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them… Read the whole commentary →

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