Judges 16:11

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He said to her, 'If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.'

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  • Judg 15:13 : 13 They answered, "We promise not to kill you, only to bind you and hand you over to them." So they tied him up with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  • Prov 13:3 : 3 Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
  • Prov 13:5 : 5 The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked act shamefully and disgrace themselves.
  • Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD will be kept safe.
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

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  • Judg 16:12-23
    12 verses
    89%

    12So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then she called out, 'Samson, the Philistines are upon you!' But men were hiding in the room, and he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.

    13Delilah said to Samson, 'You have been making a fool of me and telling me lies. Now tell me how you can be bound.' He replied, 'If you weave the seven locks of my hair into the fabric on the loom and fasten it with the pin, I will become weak like any other man.'

    14While he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his hair, wove them into the fabric, and fastened them with the pin. Then she called to him, 'Samson, the Philistines are upon you!' But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin, the loom, and the fabric.

    15Then Delilah said to him, 'How can you say, “I love you,” when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and have not told me the secret of your great strength.'

    16With her nagging she pressed him day after day until he was sick to death of it.

    17So he told her everything: 'No razor has ever been used on my head,' he said, 'because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.'

    18When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, 'Come back once more; he has told me everything.' So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands.

    19After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven locks of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.

    20Then she called, 'Samson, the Philistines are upon you!' He awoke from his sleep and thought, 'I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.' But he did not know that the LORD had left him.

    21Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.

    22But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

    23The rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, 'Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.'

  • Judg 16:3-10
    8 verses
    86%

    3But Samson lay down until midnight. At midnight, he got up, seized the doors of the city gate along with the two doorposts, pulled them up with the bar, laid them on his shoulders, and carried them to the top of the hill facing Hebron.

    4Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

    5The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, 'Entice him and find out the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so that we may tie him up and subdue him. Each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.'

    6So Delilah said to Samson, 'Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.'

    7Samson answered her, 'If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be like any other man.'

    8So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

    9With men hidden in the room, she called out to him, 'Samson, the Philistines are upon you!' But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

    10Then Delilah said to Samson, 'You have made a fool of me and lied to me. Now tell me how you can be tied up.'

  • Judg 15:10-16
    7 verses
    78%

    10The men of Judah asked, "Why have you come to attack us?" They replied, "We have come to tie up Samson and do to him as he has done to us."

    11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don’t you know that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?" He replied, "I only did to them what they did to me."

    12They said to him, "We have come down to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you yourselves will not harm me."

    13They answered, "We promise not to kill you, only to bind you and hand you over to them." So they tied him up with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.

    14As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. Then the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him; the ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands.

    15Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he reached out, took it, and struck down a thousand men with it.

    16Then Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, I have made heaps upon heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey, I have killed a thousand men."

  • Judg 15:3-7
    5 verses
    71%

    3Samson said to them, "This time I cannot be blamed when I harm the Philistines."

    4So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes. He tied them tail to tail in pairs and fastened a torch to each pair of tails.

    5Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up both the shocks of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

    6When the Philistines asked, "Who did this?" they were told, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because his father-in-law gave his wife to Samson's companion." So the Philistines went and burned her and her father to death.

    7Samson said to them, "If you act like this, I swear I will get revenge on you, and after that, I will stop."

  • Judg 14:15-17
    3 verses
    69%

    15On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife, 'Entice your husband to tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s household with fire. Did you invite us here to impoverish us?'

    16So Samson’s wife wept before him and said, 'You only hate me; you do not love me. You have posed a riddle to my people, but you have not told me the answer.' He replied, 'I have not even told it to my father or mother; why should I tell you?'

    17She cried before him the entire seven days of the feast, and on the seventh day, he told her because she pressed him so much. Then she revealed the answer to the riddle to her people.

  • Judg 16:25-29
    5 verses
    68%

    25While they were in high spirits, they shouted, 'Bring out Samson to entertain us!' So they brought Samson from the prison, and he performed for them. They made him stand between the pillars.

    26Samson said to the servant who held his hand, 'Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.'

    27Now the temple was crowded with men and women. All the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.

    28Then Samson called to the LORD, 'Sovereign LORD, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.'

    29Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on one and his left hand on the other,

  • Judg 14:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12Samson said to them, 'Let me now pose a riddle to you. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast and solve it, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothing.

    13But if you cannot solve it, then you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothing.' And they said to him, 'Pose your riddle, and we will hear it.'

  • Judg 14:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one might tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

    7Then he went down and spoke to the woman, and she pleased Samson.

  • Judg 14:3
    66%

    3But his father and mother said to him, 'Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives or among all our people, that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?' Yet Samson said to his father, 'Get her for me, because she is right in my eyes.'

  • Lam 1:14
    66%

    14My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hands they were fastened together. They were laid on my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

  • Judg 15:1
    66%

    1After some time, during the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing a young goat as a gift. He said, "Let me go into my wife's room," but her father would not let him enter.

  • Job 36:8
    65%

    8If they are bound in chains and held captive by cords of suffering,

  • Job 30:11
    65%

    11Because God has loosened my cord and afflicted me, they throw off all restraint in my presence.

  • Judg 14:1
    65%

    1Samson went down to Timnah, and there he saw a woman from among the daughters of the Philistines.