Judges Chapter 16 verse 4 Holy Bible
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.
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After this he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Deli'lah.
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And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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And it cometh to pass afterwards that he loveth a woman in the valley of Sorek, and her name `is' Delilah,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Sorek. See Judges 14:5, note. The name has not yet been discovered as applied to any existing spot; but Eusebius in the 'Onomasticon' speaks of a village Caphar-sorek as still existing near Zorah. The term valley (nachal) describes a wady, i.e. a narrow valley with a stream.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) He loved a woman.--Delilah was not, as Milton represents, his wife. Josephus (Antt. v. 8, ? 11) says that she was one who played the harlot among the Philistines, and the fathers all speak of her in similar terms. Nor is it at all clear--as is generally assumed--that she was a Philistine.In the valley of Sorek.--The English Version here follows the Vulgate, but the word for valley is nachal, and the words may mean (as the LXX. take them) "on the brook of Sorek." Sorek was not in the Philistine district, but was near Samson's native town of Zorah (Judges 13:2). It seems to have derived its name from the "choice vines" that grew there (Genesis 49:11; Isaiah 5:2; Jeremiah 2:21, Hebr.).Delilah.--The "tender" or "delicate." Ewald thinks it means "the traitress," referring to Journ. Asiat., 2:389. The Rabbis refer it to the root daldal, "to debilitate."
