Judges 16:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. ”

Judges 16:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Samson and Delilah. It was quite near his own home, in the Vale of Sorek (Grape Valley), that the Philistines, a ided by the woman who had him in thrall, ultimately got the giant under their power....
Judges 16:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth , and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
Judges 16:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Judges 16:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Samson's Escape from Gaza. Delilah's Treachery. Samson's Death 1-3. Samson and Gaza.
Judges 16:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And wherewith thou mightest be bound. — The narrative, if taken as a full account of all that took place, would leave in the mind an impression of almost incredible fatuity on the part of Samson. T...
Judges 16:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE VALLEY OF SOREK AND OF DEATH Judges 16:4-31 THE strong bold man who has blindly fought his battles and sold himself to the traitress and to the enemy, "Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slav...
Judges 16:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Playing with the Enemy Judges 16:1-14 Three women, one after another, brought Samson down. If only a noble woman could have influenced him, as Deborah did Barak, how different his record would...
Judges 16:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the sad and awful account of Samson's relapse and final fall. He went to Gaza. It is easy to imagine how much there must have been in Gaza which should have appealed to one acting for th...
Judges 16:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I see no reason to interrupt the progress of the history through the several relations given, of this artful woman ' s persevering spirit to ruin Samson. But I rather pass on to the spiritual improve...
Judges 16:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Delilah said to Samson ,.... At a proper opportunity, when in his hands and caresses, as Josephus relates e, and introduced it in an artful manner, admiring his strange exploits, and wondering h...
Judges 16:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength [lieth], and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. Ver. 6. Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength...
Judges 16:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee This seems rather to express the sum of what Delilah aimed at than her very words. For it is scarcely credible that she put this question so openly...
Judges 16:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MORE BAD RELATIONSHIPS (vv. 1-22). Samson had still not learned his lesson as regards Philistine women, and in Gaza he foolishly involved himself with a prostitute. When the Gazites knew of his b...
Judges 16:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Delilah's Treachery. B. C. 1120. 4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woma...
Judges 16:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Wherein thy great strength lieth; what is the cause of this prodigious strength, or wherein doth it consist? She seems to ask merely out of curiosity, to understand the state of a person whom she s...
Judges 16:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, how you may be bound to afflict you.” ' This was the essence of the question but it would have been put in a...
Judges 16:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

( Judges 16:1-31 .) SAMSON’S FALL, CAPTIVITY AND DEATH CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 16:1 . Then .] And —without fixing the time. A long gap stands between the events of the two previous Chapter s and...
Judges 16:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Judges 13:16 I. We must first ask what principles, regarding the way in which God works deliverance for man, were taught by Samson. (1) The first principle impressed on the minds of his contempora...
Judges 16:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 16:1 . A harlot, at Gaza, one of the five strong cities of Philistia. The Hebrew is the same as Joshua 2 ., hostess, as some would read, but our version follows the other opinion. Judges...
Judges 16:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Then went Samson to Gaza. Pleasure and peril in Gaza For what reason did Samson go down to Gaza? We imagine that in default of any excitement such as he craved in the towns of his own land, he...
Judges 16:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 16:1 Then . It should be and. There is nothing to show when the incident occurred. It may have been many years after his victory at hal-Lechi, towards the latter part of...
Judges 16:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Samson and Delilah
Judges 16:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 9:2-5 ; Micah 7:2 ; Micah 7:5 ; Proverbs 22:14 ; Proverbs 26:28 ; Proverbs 6:26 ; Proverbs 7:21 ; Psalms 12:2

Judges 16:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 16:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 16:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 16:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 16:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 16:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 16:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Judges 16:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Judges 16:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 16:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 16:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 16:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 16:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 16:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 16:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 16:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 16:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 16:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Judges 16:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 16:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 16:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 16:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 16:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge