Judges 16:6

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Judges 16:6

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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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KJV

King James Version

¶ 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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WEB

World English Bible

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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ASV

American Standard Version

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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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Judges 16

⁴ 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.”

⁷ Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

⁸ So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

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