Judges 16:4-6, 10, 13, and 15-17
"Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah."
"And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, 'Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.'"
"So Delilah said to Samson, 'Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.'"
"Then Delilah said to Samson, 'Look, you have mocked me and told me lies. Now, please tell me what you may be bound with.'"
"Delilah said to Samson, 'Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me what you may be bound with.' And he said to her, 'If you weave the seven locks of my head into the web of the loom--'"
"Then she said to him, 'How can you say, "'I love you," when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.'"
"And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death."
"That he told her all his heart, and said to her, 'No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.'"
(Samson shouldn't have tried to win over Delilah. God was telling him through her actions against him that he shouldn't be with her. Yet worldly pleasures conquered his obedience to God, as ours so often do as well.)
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Verses of the Day, Book 4
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