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Judges 16:15

TemptationLove for others

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. ”

14 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.

“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,

17 Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“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!”
KJV
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
WEB
She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
ASV
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
DARBY
Then she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? these three times hast thou mocked me, and hast not told me in what is thy great strength.
BLB
And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ and your heart [is] not with me? This [is] three times you have mocked me, and you have not told me in what [is] your great power.”
ÅB
Da sa hun til ham: Hvordan kan du si at du elsker meg når du ikke har noen tiltro til meg? Nå har du narret meg tre ganger og ikke sagt meg hvori din store styrke ligger.
OTB
Da sa hun til ham, "Hvordan kan du si, 'Jeg elsker deg,' når du ikke vil betro deg til meg? Dette er tredje gang du har gjort narr av meg og ikke har fortalt meg hemmeligheten til din store styrke."
B1930
Da sa hun til ham: Hvorledes kan du si at du elsker mig når du ikke har nogen tiltro til mig? Nu har du narret mig tre ganger og ikke sagt mig hvori din store styrke ligger.

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Cross references

  • Judges 14:16

    Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

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  • Proverbs 23:26

    My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

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  • 1 John 2:15–16

    Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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  • John 15:10

    If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

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  • John 14:15

    If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

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  • Proverbs 5:3–14

    Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

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  • Song of Solomon 8:6–7

    Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

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  • 2 Corinthians 5:14–15

    For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

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