Judges 16:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁸ Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not dried out, and she bound him with them. ⁹ While men were lying in wait in an inner chamber, she said to him, ‘The Philistines are upon you, Samson!’ But he snapped the bowstrings, as a strand of fibre snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

¹⁰ Then Delilah said to Samson, ‘You have mocked me and told me lies; please tell me how you could be bound.’