Judges 16:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless foreign women made even him to sin.

Proverbs 22:14

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

Proverbs 23:27

For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.

Proverbs 27:22

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did.

Judges 16:3

But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.

Judges 16:5

And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to subdue him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”