Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

General references

Psalm 12:2

They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Proverbs 6:26

For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a piece of bread [to be eaten up],
And the immoral woman hunts [with a hook] the precious life [of a man].
Proverbs 7:21

With her many persuasions she caused him to yield;
With her flattering lips she seduced him.
Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.
Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates those it wounds and crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.
Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,
That I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],
[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].
Micah 7:2

The godly person [who is faithful and loyal to God] has perished from the earth,
And there is no upright person [one with good character and moral integrity] among men.
They all lie in wait to shed blood;
Each hunts the other with a net.