Judges 16:15

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awakened out of his sleep, and tore away the pin of the loom, with the web.

16And it came to pass, when she worried him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul became impatient to die;

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Cross References

Genesis 29:20And Jacob served for Rachel seven years; and they seemed unto him but a few days, through the love he had to her.

Judges 14:16And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou doest but hate me, and lovest me not: that riddle hast thou propounded unto the children of my people, and me hast thou not told [the solution]. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it to my father and to my mother, and thee shall I tell it?

2 Samuel 16:17And Abshalom said to Chushai, Is this thy kindness for thy friend? why art thou not gone with thy friend?

Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the adulteress, from the alien woman that useth flattering speeches;

Proverbs 23:26Give, my son, thy heart unto me, and let thy eyes watch my ways.

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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