Judges 16:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

It came to pass after this, that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.
  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
  • Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
  • Prov 27:22 : 22 Though you pound a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
  • 1 Cor 10:6 : 6 Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.

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  • Judg 16:5-20
    16 verses
    83%

    5And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said, "Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, so that we may bind him and afflict him. Every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver."

    6So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you can be bound to afflict you."

    7And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have never been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

    8So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh cords, which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

    9Now men were lying in wait, staying with her in the room. And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he broke the cords as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

    10Then Delilah said to Samson, "You have mocked me and told me lies. Now, please tell me how you can be bound."

    11So he said to her, "If they bind me securely with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

    12Therefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And men were lying in wait in the room. But he broke them off his arms like a thread.

    13Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web."

    14So she fastened it with the pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the pin of the loom and the web.

    15Then 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."

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

    17that he told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

    18When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart." So the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

    19Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.

    20She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" So he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

  • Judg 14:1-5
    5 verses
    79%

    1And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

    2And he came up and told his father and mother, saying, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore, get her for me as a wife.

    3Then his father and mother said to him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me well.

    4But his father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines, for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

    5Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came roaring against him.

  • Judg 14:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7And he went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

    8And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.

  • Judg 15:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1After a while, during the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, I will go in to my wife in the chamber. But her father would not allow him to enter.

    2Her father said, I truly thought you hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? Take her instead, I ask you.

    3Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be blameless toward the Philistines, though I cause them harm.

  • Judg 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Then Samson went to Gaza and saw a prostitute there, and he went in to her.

    2And the people of Gaza were told, "Samson is here." So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They stayed quiet all night, saying, "In the morning, at daylight, we will kill him."

    3But Samson lay there until midnight, and at midnight he arose, and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

  • Judg 14:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband to tell us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not so?

    16And Samson's wife wept before him and said, You only hate me, and love me not. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and have not told it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told it to my father or my mother, and shall I tell you?

    17And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted. And it came to pass on the seventh day that he told her, because she pressed him greatly. And she told the riddle to the children of her people.

  • Judg 13:24
    72%

    24And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

  • Judg 16:27
    71%

    27Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there—about three thousand men and women on the roof, watching while Samson performed.

  • Judg 15:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

    7Samson said to them, Though you have done this, yet I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

  • Judg 14:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    19And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and killed thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of garments to those who explained the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

    20But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

  • Judg 16:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.

    23Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand."

  • Judg 16:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30Then Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.

    31And his brothers and all his father's house came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.

  • Judg 15:17
    68%

    17When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.

  • Judg 15:9
    67%

    9The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

  • Judg 15:12
    67%

    12They said to him, We have come down to bind you, so we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.

  • Judg 14:11
    67%

    11And it happened, when they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

  • Judg 15:15
    67%

    15He found a new jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand, took it, and killed a thousand men with it.

  • Gen 34:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to her.

    4And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this young woman as a wife.