Gideon<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;But Lord,<n id="2" /> how<n id="3" /> can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;Look, you deceived<n id="1" /> me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.&#8221;

The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, &#8220;Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate<n id="1" /> him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.&#8221; He said to her, &#8220;If you weave the seven braids of my hair<n id="1" /> into the fabric on the loom<n id="2" /> and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">She said to him, &#8220;How can you say, &#8216;I love you,&#8217; when you will not share your secret with me?<n id="1" /> Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.&#8221;