Judges 16:9

Tree of Life Version

while an ambush was waiting in an inner room. “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” she said to him. But he broke the cords just as a strand of straw snaps when it touches fire. So his strength remained unknown.

Cross References

Psalm 58:9

Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.

Judges 15:14

When he arrived at Lehi, the Philistines shouted upon meeting him. But the Ruach Adonai came mightily upon him so that the ropes that were on his arms became like flax burned with fire and his bonds melted off his wrists.

Judges 16:10

Delilah said to Samson, “Oh, you deceived me! You lied to me! Now tell me please, how you can be bound?”

Judges 16:7

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have never been dried, then I would be weak and be like any other man.”

Judges 16:8

So the Philistine lords brought up to her seven fresh cords that had never been dried, and she bound him with them,