Judges 14:17

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Summary

And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

She lay

And she told

Proverbs 2:16

Bible References

She lay

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me, where does your great strength come from? How could someone tie you up and make you helpless?”

Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

His wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.

I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

“For a while he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or respect man,

And she told

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,
from a stranger with her flattering talk,