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She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
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Samson's Incredible Strength
Commentators explain this was more than breaking threads. Delilah wove Samson's hair into a loom and likely fastened the entire machine to the floor or wall with a pin. When Samson awoke, he tore the whole apparatus—the pin, the loom, and the web—away with his hair. This was a raw display of his God-given strength, which was still fully intact.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And she fastened it with the pin ... - The meaning of the verses seems to be that the seven long braids, in which Samson’s hair was arranged…
19th Century
Anglican
She fastened it with the pin.—Unless the additions of the Vulgate and the Septuagint to the last verse were in the original text, she had …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And she fastened it with the pin That is, after she had interwoven the locks of his hair into the warp, she fastened…
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