16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived 1 me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.” 16:11 He said to her, “If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, 2 I will become weak and be just like any other man.” 16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, 3 Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) 4 But he tore the ropes 5 from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.
1 tn See Gen 31:7; Exod 8:29 [8:25 HT]; Job 13:9; Isa 44:20; Jer 9:4 for other uses of this Hebrew word (II תָּלַל, talal), which also occurs in v. 13.
2 tn Heb “with which no work has been done.”
3 tn Heb “are upon you.”
4 tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting in the bedroom.”
5 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the ropes) has been specified in the translation for clarity.