Judges 16:15
“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
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In Context
16Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
Cross References
Genesis 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
Judges 14:16Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
2 Samuel 16:17“Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your friend?”
Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Proverbs 23:26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
John 14:15If you love Me, keep My commandments.
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 →