Judges 16:15

And Delilah said to Samson, How sayest thou, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? this third time thou hast deceived me, and hast not told me wherein is thy great strength.

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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 Delilah 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 thee, Samson: 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 Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not; for the riddle which thou hast propounded to the children of my people, thou hast not told me: and Samson said to her, If I have not told it to my father and my mother, shall I tell it to thee?

2 Samuel 16:17And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not forth with thy friend?

Proverbs 2:16To remove thee far from the straight way, 1 And to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. 1 My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee, 1

Proverbs 23:26My son, give me thy heart, 1 And let thine eyes observe my ways. 1

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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