Judges 16:16

When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

In Context

15She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

17He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

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Cross References

Judges 14:16Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

Job 21:4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

Proverbs 7:26for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

Mark 14:24He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

Luke 18:5yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”

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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