Judges 16:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Now she had men lying in wait in an inner room. And she said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And he broke the bowstrings as a string of tow breaks when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines are 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.

Common English Bible

⁹ While an ambush was waiting for her signal in an inner room, she called out to him, “Samson, the Philistines are on you!” And he snapped the bowstrings like a thread of fiber snaps when it touches a flame. So the secret of his strength remained unknown.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And so, those hiding in ambush with her, in the bedroom, were expecting the end of the matter. And she cried out to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he broke the cords, as one would break a thread of flax, twisted for cutting and singed by fire. And so it was not known wherein lay his strength.

Judges 16:9 Tagairtí Cros

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,