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12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here,[a] Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.)[b] But he tore the ropes[c] from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 16:12 tn Heb “are upon you.”
  2. Judges 16:12 tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting in the bedroom.”
  3. Judges 16:12 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the ropes) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

12 So 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!”(A) But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.

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