Judges 16:13
Hebrew Text— Judges 16:13Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”
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Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”