Judges 14:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

She cried on his shoulder until the party was almost over. Finally, on the seventh day, he told her because she had nagged him so much. Then she told the young men the solution to the riddle.

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  • Judg 16:16 : 16 She nagged him every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it.
  • Job 2:9 : 9 Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”
  • Prov 2:16-17 : 16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words; 17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
  • Prov 7:21 : 21 She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.
  • Luke 11:8 : 8 I tell you, even though the man inside will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man’s sheer persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.
  • Luke 18:4-5 : 4 For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself,‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people, 5 yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
  • Judg 16:6 : 6 So Delilah said to Samson,“Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.”
  • Judg 16:13 : 13 Delilah said to Samson,“Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her,“If you weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on the loom and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

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  • Judg 14:7-16
    10 verses
    85%

    7Samson continued on down to Timnah and spoke to the girl. In his opinion, she was just the right one.

    8Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey.

    9He scooped it up with his hands and ate it as he walked along. When he returned to his father and mother, he offered them some and they ate it. But he did not tell them he had scooped the honey out of the lion’s carcass.

    10Then Samson’s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. Samson hosted a party there, for this was customary for bridegrooms to do.

    11When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company.

    12Samson said to them,“I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.

    13But if you cannot solve it, you will give me thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.” They said to him,“Let us hear your riddle.”

    14He said to them,“Out of the one who eats came something to eat; out of the strong one came something sweet.”They could not solve the riddle for three days.

    15On the fourth day they said to Samson’s bride,“Trick your husband into giving the solution to the riddle. If you refuse, we will burn up you and your father’s family. Did you invite us here to make us poor?”

    16So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder and said,“You must hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her,“Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?”

  • Judg 14:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,“What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?”He said to them,“If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”

    19The LORD’s Spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.

    20Samson’s bride was then given to his best man.

  • Judg 16:12-20
    9 verses
    75%

    12So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!”(The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) But he tore the ropes from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

    13Delilah said to Samson,“Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her,“If you weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on the loom and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

    14So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom, fastened it with the pin, and said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He woke up and tore away the pin of the loom and the fabric.

    15She said to him,“How can you say,‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

    16She nagged him every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it.

    17Finally he told her his secret. He said to her,“My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.”

    18When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, she sent for the rulers of the Philistines, saying,“Come up here again, for he has told me his secret.” So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands.

    19She made him go to sleep on her lap and then called a man in to shave off the seven braids of his hair. She made him vulnerable and his strength left him.

    20She said,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He woke up and thought,“I will do as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not realize that the LORD had left him.

  • Judg 16:4-10
    7 verses
    71%

    4After this Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

    5The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her,“Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

    6So Delilah said to Samson,“Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.”

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

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

    9They hid in the bedroom and then she said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He snapped the bowstrings as easily as a thread of yarn snaps when it is put close to fire. The secret of his strength was not discovered.

    10Delilah said to Samson,“Look, you deceived me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”

  • Judg 15:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Samson Versus the Philistines Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father,“I want to sleep with my bride in her bedroom!” But her father would not let him enter.

    2Her father said,“I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!”

  • Judg 14:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1Samson’s Unconsummated Marriage Samson went down to Timnah, where a Philistine girl caught his eye.

    2When he got home, he told his father and mother,“A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife.”

    3But his father and mother said to him,“Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” But Samson said to his father,“Get her for me, because she is the right one for me.”

  • Judg 16:27
    70%

    27Now the temple was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were there. There were three thousand men and women on the roof watching Samson entertain.

  • Judg 11:36-38
    3 verses
    69%

    36She said to him,“My father, since you made an oath to the LORD, do to me as you promised. After all, the LORD vindicated you before your enemies, the Ammonites.”

    37She then said to her father,“Please grant me this one wish. For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

    38He said,“You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.

  • Judg 15:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6The Philistines asked,“Who did this?” They were told,“Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because the Timnite took Samson’s bride and gave her to his best man.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father.

    7Samson said to them,“Because you did this, I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting.”

  • 1 Sam 1:7
    68%

    7This is how it would go year after year. As often as she went up to the LORD’s house, Peninnah would offend her that way.) So she cried and refused to eat.

  • Judg 19:4
    68%

    4His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.

  • Ruth 3:14
    67%

    14So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought,“No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor.”

  • Deut 21:13
    67%

    13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.

  • Judg 16:25
    67%

    25When they really started celebrating, they said,“Call for Samson so he can entertain us!” So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. They made him stand between two pillars.

  • Judg 13:23-24
    2 verses
    67%

    23But his wife said to him,“If the LORD wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

    24Manoah’s wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the LORD empowered him.

  • Judg 19:6
    66%

    6So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. Then the girl’s father said to the man,“Why not stay another night and have a good time!”

  • 1 Sam 1:10
    66%

    10As for her, she was very distressed. She prayed to the LORD and was, in fact, weeping.

  • Judg 11:40
    66%

    40Every year Israelite women commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days.