Judges 16:10

Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

World English Bible Classic

In The King James Version

And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

In Context

9Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

11He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then I will become weak, and be as another man.”

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Cross References

Judges 16:13Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”

Nehemiah 6:4They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

Proverbs 24:28Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Luke 22:48But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”

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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