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.”
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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.”
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Judges 16:7
Samson 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.”
Judges 16:8
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Judges 16:9
Now 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.
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.”
Judges 16:11
He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
Judges 16:12
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
Judges 16:13
Delilah 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.”
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Judges 16:6
Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
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.”
Judges 16:16
When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
Judges 16:17
He 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.”
Judges 16:18
When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.
Judges 16:19
She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Judges 16:20
She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.
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Genesis 31:7
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
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Isaiah 16:10
Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
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