Discovery BoxJudges 16:4 
Context16:4 After this Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.
Judges 16:6
Context16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.” 1
Judges 16:10
Context16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived 2 me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”
Judges 16:12-13
Context16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, 3 Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) 4 But he tore the ropes 5 from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.
16:13 Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair 6 into the fabric on the loom 7 and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”
Judges 16:18
Context16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, 8 she sent for 9 the rulers of the Philistines, saying, “Come up here again, for he has told me 10 his secret.” 11 So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands.
1 tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”
2 tn See Gen 31:7; Exod 8:29 [8:25 HT]; Job 13:9; Isa 44:20; Jer 9:4 for other uses of this Hebrew word (II תָּלַל, talal), which also occurs in v. 13.
3 tn Heb “are upon you.”
4 tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting in the bedroom.”
5 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the ropes) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “head” (also in the following verse). By metonymy the head is mentioned in the Hebrew text in place of the hair on it.
7 tn Heb “with the web.” For a discussion of how Delilah did this, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 381, and G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 353-54.
8 tn Heb “all his heart.”
9 tn Heb “she sent and summoned.”
10 tc The translation follows the Qere, לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the Kethib, לָהּ (lah, “to her”).
11 tn Heb “all his heart.”
