Judges 16:4
Judges chapter 16 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Context
v.3And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
v.4This passage
v.5And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Proverbs 26:11
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, So isa fool that repeateth his folly.
- Proverbs 23:27
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
- Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
- Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.