Samson's Immorality. Judges 16

 

Judges 16 – Samson’s Immorality

 

Then Samson went to Gaza and went into a harlot. He got up at midnight and found the gates of the city locked. He took the gate, posts, bar, and all, put them on his shoulders, and carried them away to the top of the hill that is before Hebron. That would have been forty miles away.

 

Later, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah. One of the greatest sins that destroys a man today is this matter of illicit sex.  That was Samson’s sin.  As far as we know, he made no attempt to marry her. You can be sure that Delilah was more interested in the silver than she was in Samson.  Once again the Philistine leaders had found a way to get to Samson.

Delilah wants to know what makes Samson strong.  He toys with her for quite some time until she gets angry enough to tell him that if he really loved her he would tell her the secret of his strength. So, Samson told her that he was a Nazarite, and his long hair was part of his vow. His strength was not in his hair but in the Spirit of God who came upon him. When Samson went to sleep, Delilah had one of the Philistines come in and cut his hair. When he woke up, “he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.” The strength of the believer is always in the Spirit of God.

After the Philistines captured Samson, they put out his eyes, then forced him to do the work of a beast of burden in the prison.  While he was in prison, his hair began to grow.  He now has become a very repentant man. The Pharisees ascribe their victory over Samson to their god Dagon and hold a feast to celebrate. They bring him from the prison and about three thousand men and women watch him being tormented.

Samson called upon the Lord, took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the Lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So, the people which he killed at his death were more than they which he killed in his life.

 

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.