Then Delilah said, “You’ve been making fun of me and telling me lies! Now tell me how you can be tied up securely.” Samson replied, “If you were to weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on your loom and tighten it with the loom shuttle, I would become as weak as anyone else.” So while he slept, Delilah wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric.

Commentaries

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Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web. —The illustrious and “sunny locks of the Nazarite” did not, as Milt…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

And Delilah said unto Samson
At another time, when she thought it most proper to upbraid him with his deception of h…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Samson had been more than once brought into mischief and danger by the love of women, yet he would not take warning, but is again taken in the same…