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So they brought her the seven bowstrings, and while he slept[a] she tied him with them. Some men were hiding in the next room, so as soon as she had tied him up she exclaimed, “Samson! The Philistines are here!”

Then he snapped the bowstrings like cotton thread,[b] and so his secret was not discovered.

10 Afterward Delilah said to him, “You are making fun of me! You told me a lie! Please tell me how you can be captured!”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:8 and while he slept, implied in v. 14.
  2. Judges 16:9 like cotton thread, literally, “like a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire.”

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