Judges 16:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

But king Solomon loved many foreign women, including the daughter of Pharaoh, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Idumea, and of Sidon, and of the Hittites.

Nehemiah 13:26

"Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin in this kind of thing? And certainly, among many nations, there was no king similar to him, and he was beloved of his God, and God set him as king over all of Israel. And yet foreign women led even him into sin!

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall into it.

Proverbs 23:27

For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to his vomit, so also is the imprudent who repeats his foolishness.

Proverbs 27:22

Even if you were to crush the foolish with a mortar, as when a pestle strikes over pearled barley, his foolishness would not be taken from him.

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things were done as an example for us, so that we might not desire evil things, just as they desired.

Judges 16:3

But Samson slept until the middle of the night, and rising up from there, he took both doors from the gate, with their posts and bars. And laying them upon his shoulders, he carried them to the top of the hill that looks toward Hebron.

Judges 16:5

And the leaders of the Philistines went to her, and they said: "Deceive him, and learn from him wherein lies his great strength, and how we may be able to overcome him and to impose restraints on him. And if you will do this, each one of us will give you one thousand one hundred silver coins."