Judges 16:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶ So Delilah said to Samson, ‘Please tell me, where does your great strength come from? How could someone tie you up and make you helpless? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound to subdue you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Common English Bible

⁶ So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what gives you such great strength and how you can be tied up and made weak.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Therefore, Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me, I beg you, wherein lies your very great strength, and with what might you be bound, so that you could not break free?"

Judges 16:6 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 6:4

Four times they sent me the same proposal, and I gave them the same reply.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit; a man cursed by the  Lord will fall into it.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

Proverbs 6:26

For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man  goes after a precious life.

Proverbs 7:21

She seduces him with her persistent pleading; she lures with her flattering talk.

Micah 7:2

Faithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.

Micah 7:5

Do not rely on a friend; don’t trust in a close companion. Seal your mouth from the woman who lies in your arms.

Judges 14:17

She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and at last, on the seventh day, he explained it to her, because she had nagged him so much. Then she explained it to her people.

Judges 16:5

The Philistine leaders  went to her and said, ‘Persuade him to tell you  where his great strength comes from, so we can overpower him, tie him up, and make him helpless. Each of us will then give you 1,100 pieces of silver.’

Judges 16:7

Samson told her, ‘If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be like any other man.’