Judges 16:6

Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

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WEBBE

Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

BSB

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

KJV

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

ASV

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

BBE

So Delilah said to Samson, Make clear to me now what is the secret of your great strength, and how you may be put in bands and made feeble.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 4–17

Samson had been more than once brought into mischief and danger by the love of women, yet he would not take warning, but is again taken in the same snare, and this third time is fatal. Licentiousness is one of the things that take away the heart. This is a deep pit into which many have fallen; but from which few have escaped, and those by a miracle of mercy, with the loss of reputation and usefulness, of almost all, except their souls. The anguish of the suffering is ten thousand times greater than all the pleasures of the sin.

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