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Judges 16:16 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. "
Judges 16:16
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14 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.
15 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.”
16 When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
17 He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.
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Judges 16:1
"Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her."
Judges 16:2
"The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”"
Judges 16:3
"Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron."
Judges 16:4
"It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah."
Judges 16:5
"The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”"
Judges 16:6
"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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