Judges 16:6

English Standard Version 2016

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.”

Cross References

Micah 7:5

Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;

Micah 7:2

The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

Proverbs 7:21

With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

Proverbs 6:26

for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

Psalm 12:2

Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Judges 16:5

And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”

Judges 16:7

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”

Judges 14:17

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.

Nehemiah 6:4

And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.