12So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, |The Philistines are on you, Samson!| The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.


In Context

9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, |The Philistines are on you, Samson!| He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

10 Delilah said to Samson, |Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound.|

11 He said to her, |If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.|

12 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, |The Philistines are on you, Samson!| The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

13 Delilah said to Samson, |Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.| He said to her, |If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.|

14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, |The Philistines are on you, Samson!| He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

Judges 16:12 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:12So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:12Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And [there were] liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:12Dalila bound him again with these, and cried out: The Philistines are upon thee, Samson, there being an ambush prepared for him in the chamber. But he broke the bands like threads of webs.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:12So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them off his arms like a thread.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:12So Deli'lah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, |The Philistines are upon you, Samson!| And the men lying in wait were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:12So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And the liers in wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:12Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him with them, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. (And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber.) And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:12And Delilah taketh thick bands, new ones, and bindeth him with them, and saith unto him, 'Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and the ambush is abiding in an inner chamber, and he breaketh them from off his arms as a thread.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:12Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines be on you, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.