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Delilah Quiz

Test how well you remember the story of Delilah, from Judges 16:4-22. Each question is answered directly from the passage, and the King James verse is shown with every answer. Complete the quiz to unlock a free 7-day prayer guide!

  1. Where did Delilah live?
    • Jerusalem
    • The land of Moab
    • The valley of Sorek
    • Gaza
  2. How much did each lord of the Philistines promise Delilah?
    • Eleven hundred pieces of silver
    • A talent of gold
    • Seven hundred shekels
    • Thirty pieces of silver
  3. What was the first thing Samson said would bind him?
    • Chains of iron
    • Fetters of brass
    • New ropes
    • Seven green withs that were never dried
  4. How easily did Samson break the green withs?
    • He could not break them
    • As a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire
    • With the help of his brothers
    • Only after a long struggle
  5. What was the second thing Samson told her?
    • Cords of leather
    • A web woven with his hair
    • New ropes that never were occupied
    • Seven green withs
  6. What did Delilah fasten the woven locks with?
    • A nail of iron
    • A chain
    • A rope
    • The pin
  7. What did Delilah ask after three failed attempts?
    • Why hast thou left me?
    • Who is thy God?
    • How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me?
    • Wilt thou marry me?
  8. How did Delilah finally get Samson to tell her?
    • She asked his parents
    • She paid him silver
    • She threatened him with a sword
    • She pressed him daily with her words
  9. What did Samson say had never come upon his head?
    • Oil
    • A crown
    • A razor
    • A helmet
  10. What did Samson not know when he woke after being shaved?
    • That it was morning
    • That Delilah had left
    • That he was in Gaza
    • That the LORD was departed from him

Delilah Quiz Answers & Bible References

Every answer below, with the King James Bible verse it comes from — so you can look up each one for yourself.

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  1. Where did Delilah live?

    The valley of Sorek

    And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

    judges 16:4 (KJV)
  2. How much did each lord of the Philistines promise Delilah?

    Eleven hundred pieces of silver

    And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

    judges 16:5 (KJV)
  3. What was the first thing Samson said would bind him?

    Seven green withs that were never dried

    And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

    judges 16:7 (KJV)
  4. How easily did Samson break the green withs?

    As a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire

    Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

    judges 16:9 (KJV)
  5. What was the second thing Samson told her?

    New ropes that never were occupied

    And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

    judges 16:11 (KJV)
  6. What did Delilah fasten the woven locks with?

    The pin

    And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

    judges 16:14 (KJV)
  7. What did Delilah ask after three failed attempts?

    How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me?

    And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

    judges 16:15 (KJV)
  8. How did Delilah finally get Samson to tell her?

    She pressed him daily with her words

    And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

    judges 16:16 (KJV)
  9. What did Samson say had never come upon his head?

    A razor

    That he told her all his heart, and said unto her. There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.

    judges 16:17 (KJV)
  10. What did Samson not know when he woke after being shaved?

    That the LORD was departed from him

    And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.

    judges 16:20 (KJV)