Judges 16:6

The Scriptures 1998

And Delilah said to Shimshon, “Please reveal to me where your great strength lies, and by what you might be bound, to humble you.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:4

However, they sent me the same word four times, and I answered them the same word.

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood with each other; They speak with flattering lips, a double heart.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; The one denounced by יהוה  falls in there.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 6:26

For because of a whore One is brought to a crust of bread. And an adulteress hunts a precious life.

Proverbs 7:21

With her many words she leads him astray, With her smooth lips she seduces him.

Micah 7:2

The kind one has perished from the earth, and there is no one straight among men. All of them lie in wait for blood, everyone hunts his brother with a net.

Micah 7:5

Trust no friend, rely on no companion, guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

Judges 14:17

And she had wept before him the seven days while their feast lasted. And it came to be on the seventh day that he informed her, because she pressed him so much. She then explained the riddle to the sons of her people.

Judges 16:5

And the princes of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and see by what we might overpower him, then we shall bind him to humble him. And let us give you, each one of us, eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

Judges 16:7

And Shimshon said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords, not yet dried, then I shall be weak, and be like any other man.”