Judges 16:4
Good News Translation
After this, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in Sorek Valley.

New Revised Standard Version
After this he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Contemporary English Version
Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in Sorek Valley.

New American Bible
After that he fell in love with a woman in the Wadi Sorek whose name was Delilah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.

he loved

1 Kings 11:1 And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.

Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

Proverbs 23:27 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Proverbs 26:11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.

Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.

1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

in the valley or by the brook

Context
Samson and Delilah
4After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila.5And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may be able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.…
Cross References
Judges 16:3
But Samson slept till midnight, and then rising, he took both the doors of the gate, with the posts thereof and the bolt, and laying them on his shoulders, carried them up to the top of the hill, which looketh towards Hebron.

Judges 16:5
And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may be able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

Judges 16:3
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