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.