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Judges 16:14

Samson

12 So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man. ”

So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

15 “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

16 Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

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BSB
So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.
KJV
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
WEB
She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.
ASV
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
DARBY
And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and tore out the pin of the beam, and the web.
BLB
[And while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web]. And she wove [it] tightly Then she tightened [it] with a pin, and said to him, “The Philistines [are] upon you, Samson.” And he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin of the loom, and with it the web.
ÅB
Så slo hun dem fast med naglen og sa til ham: Filistrene er over deg, Samson! Og han våknet av sin søvn og rev ut både vevnaglen og renningen.
OTB
Og hun festet det med pinnen og ropte, "Samson, filisterne er over deg!" Han våknet fra søvnen og trakk ut pinnen og veven, med stoffet.
B1930
Så slo hun dem fast med naglen og sa til ham: Filistrene er over dig, Samson! Og han våknet av sin søvn og rev ut både vevnaglen og renningen.

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  • Ezra 9:13–14

    After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

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  • Psalms 106:43

    Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

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