Judges 16:6

The Message

So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me, dear, the secret of your great strength, and how you can be tied up and humbled.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:4

Four times they sent this message and four times I gave them my answer.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a prostitute is a bottomless pit; you’ll fall in that pit if you’re on the outs with God.

Proverbs 26:28

Liars hate their victims; flatterers sabotage trust.

Proverbs 7:21

Soon she has him eating out of her hand, bewitched by her honeyed speech. Before you know it, he’s trotting behind her, like a calf led to the butcher shop, Like a stag lured into ambush and then shot with an arrow, Like a bird flying into a net not knowing that its flying life is over.

Judges 14:17

But she turned on the tears all the seven days of the feast. On the seventh day, worn out by her nagging, he told her. Then she went and told it to her people.

Judges 16:7

Samson told her, “If they were to tie me up with seven bowstrings—the kind made from fresh animal tendons, not dried out—then I would become weak, just like anyone else.”