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Judges 16:4

DelilahValley of Sorek
TemptationLove for others

2 When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

3 But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

5 The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

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

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BSB
Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
KJV
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
WEB
It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
ASV
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
DARBY
And it came to pass afterwards that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
BLB
And it came to pass after thus, that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, and her name [was] Delilah.
ÅB
Siden fattet han kjærlighet til en kvinne i Sorek-dalen, som hette Dalila.
OTB
Noe senere ble han forelsket i en kvinne i Sorekdalen som hette Delila.
B1930
Siden fattet han kjærlighet til en kvinne i Sorek-dalen, som hette Dalila.

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