Judges 16:6

16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.” ¹ 

Judges 16:23

Samson’s Death and Burial

16:23 The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ²  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ³ 

Judges 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate ⁴  him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Judges 16:15

16:15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? ⁵  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

¹ tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”

² map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

³ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.

³ tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

⁴ tn Heb “when your heart is not with me.”