Judges 16:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

While men were lying in wait in an inner chamber, she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings as a strand of fiber snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

Cross References

Psalm 58:9

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

Judges 15:14

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him, and the spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.

Judges 16:10

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and told me lies; please tell me how you could be bound.”

Judges 16:7

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that are not dried out, then I shall become weak and be like anyone else.”

Judges 16:8

Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not dried out, and she bound him with them.