Delilah (Bible)
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Delilah is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. She is loved by Samson, a Nazirite who possesses great strength and serves as the final Judge of Israel. Delilah is bribed by the lords of the Philistines to discover the source of his strength. After three failed attempts at doing so, she finally goads Samson into telling her that his vigor is derived from his hair. As he sleeps, Delilah orders a servant to cut Samson's hair, thereby enabling her to turn him over to the Philistines.…more
[close] Delilah is a woman mentioned in the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. She is loved by Samson, a Nazirite who possesses great strength and serves as the final Judge of Israel. Delilah is bribed by the lords of the Philistines to discover the source of his strength. After three failed attempts at doing so, she finally goads Samson into telling her that his vigor is derived from his hair. As he sleeps, Delilah orders a servant to cut Samson's hair, thereby enabling her to turn him over to the Philistines.
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Books with Delilah (Bible)
 | The Holy Bible: King James Version by 4.44 avg rating — 305,873 ratings — published 1611 add/edit characters | |
 | Delilah: Treacherous Beauty (Dangerous Beauty, #3) by 4.12 avg rating — 1,190 ratings — published 2016 add/edit characters | |
 | The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha by 3.86 avg rating — 768 ratings — published 1611 add/edit characters | |
 | Desired: The Untold Story of Samson and Delilah (Lost Loves of the Bible, #2) by 3.84 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2011 add/edit characters |
