Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.
Verse Takeaways
1
The Danger of Infatuation
Commentators agree that Samson's primary fault was not stupidity but, as Charles Ellicott states, "sensual infatuation." Matthew Henry calls licentiousness a "deep pit" that "takes away the heart." The story serves as a powerful moral lesson that unchecked passion can lead step-by-step to ruin, shame, and the loss of God's gifts.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Judges
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
3
19th Century
Anglican
And with what you might be bound. —The narrative, if taken as a full account of all that took place, would leave in the mind an im…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Delilah said to Samson At a proper opportunity, when in his hands and caresses, as Josephus relates F5
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…