Judges 16:15

And she said unto him, How can you say, I love you, when yours heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me wherein your great strength lies.

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And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

In Context

14And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon you, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

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Cross References

Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

Judges 14:16And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and love me not: you have put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and have not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it you?

2 Samuel 16:17And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? why went you not with your friend?

Proverbs 2:16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;

Proverbs 23:26My son, give me yours heart, and let yours eyes observe my ways.

John 14:15If all of 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 →

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