Hakim-hakim 16:16

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu setelah perempuan itu berhari-hari merengek-rengek kepadanya dan terus mendesak-desak dia, ia tidak dapat lagi menahan hati, sehingga ia mau mati rasanya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu setelah perempuan itu berhari-hari merengek-rengek kepadanya dan terus mendesak-desak dia, ia tidak dapat lagi menahan hati, sehingga ia mau mati rasanya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sesungguhnya sebab pada sebilang hari dibujuknya akan dia dengan katanya, serta direnggek-renggeknya akan dia, maka hatinyapun susahlah sampai kemati-matian.

Contextual Overview

⁴ And after this, he loued a woman by the ryuer of Sorek, whose name was Dalila. ⁵ Unto whom came the lordes of the Philistines, and sayde vnto her: Perswade him, and see wherin his great strength lyeth, and by what meanes we may ouercome him, that we may bynde him, and punishe hym: and euery one of vs shall geue thee a leuen hundred siluer lynges. ⁶ And Dalila sayde to Samson: Oh, tell me where thy great strength lyeth, and how thou myghtest be bounde and brought vnder. ⁷ Samson aunswered vnto her: Yf they binde me with seuen greene wythes that were neuer dryed, I shalbe weake, and be as an other man. ⁸ And then the lordes of the Philistines brought her seuen wythes that were yet greene & neuer dryed, and she bound hym therwith. ⁹ (Notwithstanding she had men lying in wayte with her in the chaumbre): And she said vnto him, The Philistines be vpon thee Samson. And immediatly he brake the cordes, as a stryng of towe breaketh when it fealeth fire. And so his strength was not knowen. ¹⁰ And Dalila sayde vnto Samson: See, thou hast mocked me, and tolde me lies: Now therfore tell me wherwith thou myghtest be bounde. ¹¹ He aunswered her: Yf they bynde me with newe ropes that neuer were occupied, I shall be weake, and be as an other man. ¹² Dalila therfore toke newe ropes, and bounde him therwith, and sayde vnto him, The Philistines be vpo thee Samson. (And there were lyers of wayte in the chamber.) And he brake them from of his armes, as they had ben but a threade. ¹³ And Dalila sayde vnto Samson, Hytherto thou hast beguyled me, and tolde me lyes: Yet tell me howe thou myghtest be bounde. He sayde vnto her: Yf thou plattest the seuen lockes of my head with the threades of the wooffe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

she pressed: Proverbs 7:21-23, Proverbs 7:26, Proverbs 7:27, Luke 11:8, Luke 18:5

vexed: Heb. shortened, Job 21:4, *marg. Jonah 4:9, Mark 14:24

Reciprocal: Judges 14:17 - she lay Job 19:2 - vex Proverbs 1:10 - General Ezekiel 16:30 - the work

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him,.... Lay at him day after day to communicate the secret to him, gave him no rest, but was incessant in her applications to him:

so that his soul was vexed unto death: could hardly bear to live, but wished to die, being in the utmost perplexity what to do between two different passions, love and fear; on the one hand chained by his lust to this harlot, that was continually teasing him, and whom he had not an heart to leave, or otherwise that would have cleared him of his difficulties; and on the other hand, should he disclose the secret, he feared, and was in danger of losing his strength, in which his glory lay: or

"his soul was shortened unto death'' c;

it was the means of shortening his days, and hastening his death. Abarbinel thinks that Samson was sensible of this, that his days were short, and the time of his death at hand; which made him the more willing to impart the secret. This may put in mind of the story of Milo, a man famous for his great strength, said to carry an ox upon his shoulders a furlong without breathing; of whom it is reported, that none of his adversaries could deliver themselves out of his hands, but his whore could, often contending with him; hence it is observed of him, that he was strong in body, but not of a manly soul d; and there are many other things said e of him concerning his great strength, which seem to be taken from this history of Samson.

c תקצר "abbreviata est", Montanus, Drusius. So Munster. d Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 2. c. 24. e Vid. Pausan. Eliac. 2. sive. l. 6. p. 309.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 16:16. His soul was vexed unto death — What a consummate fool was this strong man! Might he not have seen, from what already took place, that Delilah intended his ruin? After trifling with her, and lying thrice, he at last commits to her his fatal secret, and thus becomes a traitor to himself and to his God. Well may we adopt the sensible observation of Calmet on this passage: La foiblesse du caeur de Samson, dans torte cette histoire, est encore plus etonnante que la force de son corps; "The weakness of Samson's heart in the whole of this history, is yet more astonishing than the strength of his body."