Judges 16:6

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me, I beg you, wherein lies your very great strength, and with what might you be bound, so that you could not break free?"

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:4

Then they sent to me, with this same word, four times. And I responded to them with the same word as before.

Psalm 12:2

How long can I take counsel in my soul, sorrowing in my heart throughout the day?

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 26:28

A false tongue does not love truth. And a slippery mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 6:26

For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

Proverbs 7:21

She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.

Micah 7:2

The holy ones pass away from the land, and there is no one righteous among men. All wait in ambush for blood; a man hunts his brother to death.

Micah 7:5

Do not be willing to believe a friend. And do not be willing to confide in a commander. From her, who sleeps in your bosom, keep the doors of your mouth closed.

Judges 14:17

Therefore, she wept before him during the seven days of the feast. And at length, on the seventh day, since she had been troubling him, he explained it. And immediately she revealed it to her countrymen.

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."

Judges 16:7

And Samson answered her, "If I will be bound with seven cords, made of sinews not yet dry, but still damp, I will be weak like other men."