Judges 16:15

And Dalida said to Sampson, How say you, I love you, when your heart is not with me? this third time you have deceived me, and have not told me wherein is your great strength.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 it came to pass when he was asleep, that Dalida took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines are upon you, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.

16And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.

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Cross References

Genesis 29:20And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they were before him as a few days, by reason of his loving her.

Judges 14:16And Sampson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and love me not; for the riddle which you have propounded to the children of my people you have not told me: and Sampson said to her, If I have not told it to my father and my mother, shall I tell it to you?

2 Samuel 16:17And Abessalom said to Chusi, Is this your kindness to your friend? why went you not forth with your friend?

Proverbs 2:16to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake you,

Proverbs 23:26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe 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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