Judges 16:6

Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

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In The King James Version

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

In Context

5The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

7Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

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Cross References

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

Proverbs 6:26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.

Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Micah 7:5Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

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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