Judges 16:6

And Delilah says to Samson, “Please declare to me wherein your great power [is], and with what you are bound, to afflict you.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

In Context

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.”

7And Samson says to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords which have not been dried, then I have been weak, and have been as one of mankind.”

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Cross References

Nehemiah 6:4And they send to me, according to this word, four times, and I return them [word] according to this word.

Proverbs 6:26For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, || And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.

Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit, || The abhorred of YHWH falls there.

Jeremiah 9:2Who gives me in a wilderness || A lodging-place for travelers? And I leave my people, and go from them, || For all of them [are] adulterers, || An assembly of treacherous ones.

Micah 7:5Do not believe in a friend, || Do not trust in a leader, || From her who is lying in your bosom keep the openings of your mouth.

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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