Judges 16:13-18

Judges 16:13

And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

 

Once again Delilah tells Samson that he has mocked her by lying to her and still insists on him telling her how he can be bound.  This time he tells her that if she takes the seven locks of his hair which would be his entire head of hair and weave them as if she was weaving on a loom.  The web means that it is something expanded which would be his hair as the warp in a loom ready to receive the woof.

 

Judges 16:14

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.

 

Samson fell asleep and Delilah then began to fasten his hair to the pin which was the frame of a weaving loom.  Then once she completed pinning his hair she then yells that the Philistines were upon him.  Then as soon as Samson woke up, he then left there with the entire unit which would have been nothing for him to carry since he easily carried the doors of the city of Gaza.  Once again Samson had outwitted them.

 

Judges 16:15

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.

 

Now she continues to emit her victim diatribe against Samson.  She asks him that how can you say and mean that you really love me when it seems your heart is far away from me.  You have mocked me these three times by giving false information and you still refuse to tell me where your great strength lies.  I am sure that now she was using crocodile tears to reach his emotions and gain the information that she was paid to extract.  She was probably desperate and did not want to take a chance losing her 5500 pieces of silver or even her life if she failed.

 

Judges 16:16

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

 

She continued daily to press him to the point that he was feeling oppressed by her continual badgering.  He was to the point that Delilah caused him to feel “vexed unto death.” The term “vexed unto death” is an expression which means “exasperation and irritation.”  The word “vexed” means “provoked, troubled, or afflicted.”

 

Judges 16:17

That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor 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.

 

Then she finally wore down his defenses by the continual badgering.  He then gives her the truth that as a Nazarite unto God, no razor has ever come upon his head and if his head is shaven, then that would cause him to lose his great strength and he will be like every other man with only limited strength.   All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no rasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.  (Numbers 6:5, KJV)

 

Judges 16:18

And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

 

Then Delilah knew that this time Samson had given her the truth and how he could be made humble.  Delilah then sent for the lords of the Philistines and she told them that now he has opened his heart to me and gave me the secret of his great strength.  Her project was completed and now she was given the money she was promised if she succeeded which she did.

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