Judges 16:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” (The men lying in wait were in an inner chamber.) But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And the men lying in wait were in the inner room. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like [sewing] thread.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them off his arms like a thread.

Common English Bible

¹² So Delilah took new ropes and tied him up with them. Then she called out to him, “Samson, the Philistines are on you!” Once again, an ambush was waiting in an inner room. Yet he snapped them from his arms like thread.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Again, Delilah tied him with these, and she cried out, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" For an ambush had been prepared in the bedroom. But he broke the bindings like the filaments of a web.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Dalila bound him again with these, and cried out: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson; there being an ambush prepared for him in the chamber. But he broke the bands like threads of webs.

Judges 16:12 Cross References

Acts 21:33

Then the tribune came, arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; he inquired who he was and what he had done.

Judges 15:14

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him, and the spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.

Judges 16:11

He said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like anyone else.”

Judges 16:13

Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies; tell me how you could be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like anyone else.”