Judges 16:5

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Judges 16:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

4 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

5 The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

7 Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

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Judges 3:3

the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

Joshua 13:3

from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;

1 Samuel 29:6

So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright in my sight, and it seems right that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you have no favor in the sight of the leaders.

Judges 14:15

So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

Proverbs 2:16

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Proverbs 2:17

who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Proverbs 2:18

For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

Proverbs 2:19

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

Proverbs 5:3

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 5:4

in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Proverbs 5:6

She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

Proverbs 5:7

So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Proverbs 5:9

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:11

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 6:24

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Proverbs 6:26

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Proverbs 7:21

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

Proverbs 7:22

He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 7:24

Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 7:25

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

Proverbs 7:26

For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

1 Corinthians 6:15

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 6:17

But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

Judges 17:2

said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”

Genesis 33:16

So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

Numbers 22:17

for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’”

Numbers 22:18

But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Matthew 26:15

and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

1 Timothy 6:9

Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.