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Judges 16:16
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14 So she wove it tightly with the batten of the loom, and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the batten and the web from the loom.
15 Then she said to him, a“How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”  
16 And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was1 vexed to death,  
17 that he atold her all his heart, and said to her, b“No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”  
18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.
19 aThen she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then1 she began to torment him, and his strength left him.  
20 And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the Lord ahad departed from him.  
21 Then the Philistines took him and put out his aeyes, and brought him down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters, and he became a grinder in the prison.  
22 However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven.

Samson Dies with the Philistines

23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to aDagon their god, and to rejoice. And they said:
“Our god has delivered into our hands
Samson our enemy!”  
Verse Comparison: Judges 16:16

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American Standard Version
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

Amplified® Bible
And when she pressed him day after day with her words and urged him, he was vexed to death.

Contemporary English Version
Delilah started nagging and pestering him day after day, until he couldn't stand it any longer.

Darby English Version
And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

Good News Bible
She kept on asking him, day after day. He got so sick and tired of her bothering him about it

King James Version
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

New American Standard Bible
It came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.

New International Version
With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.

New King James Version
And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death,

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
It came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul became annoyed to death.

Revised Standard Version
And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,

New English Translation
She nagged him1 every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it.2


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