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Judges 16:4

DelilahValley of Sorek
TemptationLove for others

2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

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

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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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  • Proverbs 22:14

    The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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  • Proverbs 23:27

    For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:6

    Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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  • Proverbs 27:22

    Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

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  • Proverbs 26:11

    As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

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  • 1 Kings 11:1

    But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

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  • Nehemiah 13:26

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

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