Judges 16:4-6
4After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5And athe lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, b“Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to chumble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.” 6So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could dsubdue you.”Judges 16:15-21
15And she said to him, e“How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.” 16And fwhen she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death. 17And he told her all his heart, and said to her, g“A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”18When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up again, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought hthe money in their hands. 19She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began ito torment him, and his strength left him. 20And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that jthe Lord had left him. 21And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. kAnd he ground at the mill in the prison.
Psalms 55:21
21His lspeech was msmooth as butter,yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil,
yet they were ndrawn swords.
Hebrews 4:12
12For othe word of God is living and pactive, qsharper than any rtwo-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and sdiscerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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