Judges 16:16

Modern English Version

Every day she nagged him with her words and pleaded with him until he was tired to death.

Cross References

Job 21:4

“As for me, is my complaint against man? And if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Jonah 4:9

Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” And Jonah replied, “It is right for me to be angry, even to death.”

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.

Luke 11:8

I say to you, though he will not rise and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as much as he needs.

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she will weary me.’ ”

Judges 14:16

So Samson’s wife wept all over him and said, “You must hate me. You do not love me. You have told a riddle to the young men and did not tell it to me.” Then he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father and mother. Why should I tell it to you?”

Judges 14:17

She wept on him for the seven days of the feast, then on the seventh day he told it to her because she had nagged him. Then she explained the riddle to her people.

Judges 16:15

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me how your strength is so great.”

Judges 16:17

So he told her all his secrets and said to her, “No razor has touched my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I were shaven, my strength would leave me, and I would become weak and be like all other men.”