Judges 16:4

New Century Version

After this, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Valley of Sorek.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many women who were not from Israel. He loved the daughter of the king of Egypt, as well as women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Nehemiah 13:26

Foreign women made King Solomon of Israel sin. There was never a king like him in any of the nations. God loved Solomon and made him king over all Israel, but foreign women made him sin.

Proverbs 22:14

The words of an unfaithful wife are like a deep trap. Those who make the Lord angry will get caught by them.

Proverbs 23:27

A prostitute is as dangerous as a deep pit, and an unfaithful wife is like a narrow well.

Proverbs 26:11

A fool who repeats his foolishness is like a dog that goes back to what it has thrown up.

Proverbs 27:22

Even if you ground up a foolish person like grain in a bowl, you couldn’t remove the foolishness.

1 Corinthians 10:6

And these things happened as examples for us, to stop us from wanting evil things as those people did.

Judges 16:3

But Samson only stayed with the prostitute until midnight. Then he got up and took hold of the doors and the two posts of the city gate and tore them loose, along with the bar. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces the city of Hebron.

Judges 16:5

The Philistine rulers went to Delilah and said, “Find out what makes Samson so strong. Trick him into telling you how we can overpower him and capture him and tie him up. If you do this, each one of us will give you twenty-eight pounds of silver.”