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Scripture Text: Judges 16:10 D’lilah said to Shimshon, “You’re making fun of me, telling me lies. Now, come on, tell me what it takes to tie you up.” 11 “All it takes,” he answered, “is to tie me up with new ropes that haven’t been used. Then I’ll become weak and be like anyone else.” 12 So D’lilah took new ropes, tied him up, and said to him, “Shimshon! The P’lishtim have come for you!” (The people lying in wait were in the inside room.) But he broke the ropes from off his arms like a thread.
13 D’lilah said to Shimshon, “Till now you’ve been making fun of me and telling me lies. Tell me what it takes to tie you up.” He said, “If you weave the seven locks of my hair across thread on a loom.” 14 So she fastened her cloth work in the loom with a pin and wove his hair in, then said to him, “Shimshon! The P’lishtim have come for you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled away the loom pin and the interwoven cloth. 15 She said to him, “How can you say you love me when your heart isn’t with me? Three times you’ve made fun of me, and you haven’t told me the source of your great strength.”
16 Every day she kept nagging at him and pressing at him, till it bothered him to death, 17 so that he finally told her everything. He said to her, “No razor has ever touched my head, because I have been a nazir of God since I was born. If someone shaves me, then my strength will leave me; and I will be like any other man.” 18 When D’lilah saw that he had really confided in her, she sent and summoned the chiefs of the P’lishtim with the message, “Come up this one last time, because he has finally told me the truth.” The chiefs of the P’lishtim went up to her and brought the money with them. 19 She had him go to sleep in her lap and called for a man to shave off his seven locks of hair. Then she began tormenting him, but his strength had gone away.
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John Wesley's Notes-Commentary: Judges 16:10-19
Verse 13
[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.
Web — Or, thread which is woven about a weaver's loom: or, with a weaver's beam. If my hair, which is all divided into seven locks, be fastened about a weaver's beam; or interwoven with weaver's threads: then I shall be weak as another man.
Verse 15
[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.
Not with me — Not open to me.
Verse 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;
Vexed — Being tormented by two contrary passions, desire to gratify her, and fear of betraying himself. So that he had no pleasure of his life.
Verse 17
[17] 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.
If I be shaven — Not that his hair was in itself the cause of his strength, but because it was the chief condition of that covenant, whereby God was pleased to ingage himself to fit him for, and assist him in that great work to which he called him: but upon his violation of the condition, God justly withdraws his help. (EFN Isaiah 40:31)
Verse 18
[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.
And brought money in their hand — See one of the bravest men then in the world bought and sold, as a sheep for the slaughter. How does this instance sully all the glory of man, and forbid the strong man ever to boast of his strength!
Verse 19
[19] And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Sleep — By some sleepy potion.
Knees — Resting his head upon her knees. To weaken or hurt, tho' he felt it not
[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.
Web — Or, thread which is woven about a weaver's loom: or, with a weaver's beam. If my hair, which is all divided into seven locks, be fastened about a weaver's beam; or interwoven with weaver's threads: then I shall be weak as another man.
Verse 15
[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.
Not with me — Not open to me.
Verse 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;
Vexed — Being tormented by two contrary passions, desire to gratify her, and fear of betraying himself. So that he had no pleasure of his life.
Verse 17
[17] 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.
If I be shaven — Not that his hair was in itself the cause of his strength, but because it was the chief condition of that covenant, whereby God was pleased to ingage himself to fit him for, and assist him in that great work to which he called him: but upon his violation of the condition, God justly withdraws his help. (EFN Isaiah 40:31)
Verse 18
[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.
And brought money in their hand — See one of the bravest men then in the world bought and sold, as a sheep for the slaughter. How does this instance sully all the glory of man, and forbid the strong man ever to boast of his strength!
Verse 19
[19] And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Sleep — By some sleepy potion.
Knees — Resting his head upon her knees. To weaken or hurt, tho' he felt it not
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Daily Devotional
Daily Devotional
Monday, May 1, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
Wednesday, May 3, 2016
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
Daily Devotional
Daily Devotional
Monday, May 1, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
- Before reading today’s text, what memories do you have about the Samson story?
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
- Read the text from Judges 16 as an adult.
- What problems do you see here?
Wednesday, May 3, 2016
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
- What is troublesome about Samson’s treatment of women?
- What does that say about him?
Daily Devotional
Thursday, May 4, 2016
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
Friday, May 5, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
First United Methodist Church
2111 Camino Del Rio South
San Diego, California 92108, United States
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Thursday, May 4, 2016
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
- Describe all the ways that trust has been broken in this story?
Friday, May 5, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
- Read the end of Judges 16.
- Does Samson restore trust or not?
- Why?
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
- Name at least three lessons you can learn about trust from this story.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Sermon theme: "All for One"
Text to read: Judges 16:10-19
- Pray for women suffering under abuse and/or injustice today.
First United Methodist Church
2111 Camino Del Rio South
San Diego, California 92108, United States
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