Judges 16:8
Judges chapter 16 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Context
v.7And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
v.8This passage
v.9Now 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.