Judges 16:4

And it comes to pass afterward that he loves a woman in the Valley of Sorek, and her name [is] Delilah,

Literal Standard Version

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

3And Samson lies down until the middle of the night, and rises in the middle of the night, and lays hold on the doors of the gate of the city, and on the two side-posts, and removes them with the bar, and puts [them] on his shoulders, and takes them up to the top of the hill, which [is] on the front of Hebron.

5and the princes of the Philistines come up to her, and say to her, “Entice him, and see wherein his great power [is], and wherein we are able for him—and we have bound him to afflict him, and each one of us gives eleven hundred pieces of silver to you.”

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Cross References

Nehemiah 13:26By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? And among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God makes him king over all Israel—even him [whom] the strange women caused to sin.

Proverbs 23:27For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, || And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.

Proverbs 27:22If you beat the foolish in a mortar, || Among washed things—with a pestle, || His folly does not turn aside from off 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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