Judges 16:15
She 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.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
Cross References
Genesis 29:20Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
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?”
2 Samuel 16:17Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”
Proverbs 2:16to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
Proverbs 23:26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep 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 →