Judges 16:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ After this he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ After these things, he loved a woman who was living in the valley of Sorek. And she was called Delilah.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec and she was called Dalila.

Judges 16:4 Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

Proverbs 23:27

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.

Proverbs 27:22

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out.

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.

Judges 16:3

But Samson lay only until midnight. Then at midnight he rose up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts, pulled them up, bar and all, put them on his shoulders, and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.

Judges 16:5

The lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, “Coax him, and find out what makes his strength so great and how we may overpower him, so that we may bind him in order to subdue him, and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”