⁴ Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.

¹ Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

²⁶ Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

²⁷ For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

¹¹ Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

²² Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

⁶ Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.