Judges 16:8

A Conservative Version

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Judges 16:7

And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then I shall become weak, and be as another man.

Judges 16:9

Now she had an ambush abiding in the inner chamber. And she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.