Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
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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.”
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And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
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And Delilah said unto Samson: 'Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.'
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Passages linked to Judges 16:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Judges 16:13 Delilah 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.”
- Proverbs 24:28 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
- Ezekiel 33:31 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.
- Luke 22:48 But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”
- Judges 16:7 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.”
- Judges 16:15-17 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
- Proverbs 23:7-8 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Though her falsehood tended to make him lose his…
Though her falsehood tended to make him lose his life, yet his affection so blinded him, that he could not beware.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 16:10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou…
Jdg 16:10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
Ver. 10. And told me lies.] Delilah may give Samson the lie: she may say anything, do anything to him: as Omphale or Jole might clap Hercules on the cheeks, or beat him about the head with her slipper: whereas, if another had done half so much, it would not have been borne with more patience than Robert Earl of Essex took a cuff on the ear from Queen Elizabeth. He laid his hand upon his sword, saith Mr Camden, and swore a great oath that he neither could nor would swallow so great an indignity, nor would he have borne it at King Henry VIII’s hand.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Delilah said unto Samson,.... Not on the same…
And Delilah said unto Samson,.... Not on the same day, but some time after, as Kimchi observes, when an opportunity offered, and he was in like circumstances as before; for had she immediately attacked him, it might have created some suspicion in him of a design against him:
behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; deceived her with lies, by telling her the other day that if he was bound with green withs, he should become as weak as other men; which she, out of curiosity as she might pretend, had tried, and had found to be false; and which, she might add, was an argument of want of true love to her, to mock her in such a manner:
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now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound; so as to be held.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain And Delilah said--To avoid exciting suspicion, she must have…
And Delilah said--To avoid exciting suspicion, she must have allowed some time to elapse before making this renewed attempt.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Told me lies — This charge would have…
10. Told me lies — This charge would have little effect coming on one from the lips of a harlot. My moral character, Samson might have said, will compare well with yours.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) Now tell me, I pray thee.—Delilah would, of…
(10) Now tell me, I pray thee.—Delilah would, of course, tell Samson that the scene had been merely playful jest, and that she had said “Philistines upon thee, Samson!” only to be delighted with one fresh exhibition of his great strength, if he really had not revealed the secret. She would represent her desire to know as due only to loving curiosity.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Wherewith, or rather, as in ver. 8, by what…
Wherewith, or rather, as in ver. 8, by what means.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This is how you have deceived me and told…
This is how you have deceived me and told me lies.
Deceiving and lying mean the same thing and are stated to emphasize how angry Delilah felt. AT: "You have greatly deceived me!" (See: Parallelism)
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you can be overpowered
This can be stated in active form. AT: "people can overpower you"
The Philistines are upon you
The phrase "upon you" means that they are there to capture him. AT: "The Philistines are here to capture you" (See: Idiom)
lying in wait
This means that they were hiding and waiting for the right moment to attack. AT: "waiting to attack him" (See: Idiom)
like they were a piece of thread
The author describes how easily Samson broke the ropes by comparing it to him breaking a piece of thread. AT: "as easily as if they were only a piece of thread" (See: Simile)
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