Judges 16:8

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Judges 16:7

And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

Judges 16:9

Now she had liers in wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.