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Judges 16:12

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So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

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Judges 16:12 in other translations

So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them off his arms like a thread.

Judges 16:12 · American Standard Version

Judges 16:12 in context

  1. 10Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
  2. 11He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
  3. 12So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
  4. 13Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.”
    He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”
  5. 14She 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.