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Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.
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Dangerously Close to the Truth
Commentators note that Samson's third lie is dangerously close to the truth. By suggesting Delilah weave his seven consecrated locks of hair into a loom, he is showing what one scholar calls "incredible levity and folly." He allows his sacred hair, the symbol of his Nazirite vow, to be treated as a common thing, demonstrating how he is progressively nearing his downfall.
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19th Century
Anglican
If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web. —The illustrious and “sunny locks of the Nazarite” did not, as Milt…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Delilah said unto Samson At another time, when she thought it most proper to upbraid him with his deception of h…
Presbyterian
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…
