Samson fell in love with a woman whose name was Delilah.

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ALEXANDRE CABANEL
"Samson et Dalila"

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JOSÉ ECHENAGUSIA ERRAZQUIN
"Samson and Delilah"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Samson and Delilah"

The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

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So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

Samson answered her,

“If anyone ties me with seven fresh thongs that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”

. . . .

“If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”

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“If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”

Again she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.” With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.

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WILLIAM BLAKE
"Samson Breaks the Shackles"

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PIERRE-PAUL-LÉON GLAIZE
"Samson Breaking His Chains"

So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite set apart to God since birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”

When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, “Come back once more; he has told me everything.” So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.

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JAMES TISSOT
"Samson Confie à Dalila le Secret de sa Force"

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LUCAS CRANACH the Elder
"Samson and Delilah"

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"Detail"

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GUERCINO
"Samson and Delilah"

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TERRY STRICKLAND
"Samson and Delilah, Trust and Betrayal"

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FRANCESCO MORONE
"Samson and Dalila"

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TINTORETTO
"Samson and Delilah"

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REMBRANDT
"Samson and Delilah"

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ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
"Samson and Delilah"

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PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Samson and Delilah"

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MATTHIAS STOM
"Samson and Delilah"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Samson and Delilah"

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PIETRO MALOMBRA
"Samson and DelilahEWA"

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JAN LIEVENS
"Samson and Delilah"

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JAN VOORHOUT
"Samson and Delilah"

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA LUCINI
"Samson and Delilah"

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HENDRICK DE SOMER
"Samson and Delilah"

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LORENZO LIPPI
"Samson and Delilah"

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GIUSEPPE NUVOLONE
"Delilah Cutting Samson's Hair"

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EUGÈNE DELACROIX
"Samson et Dalila"

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"Samson"

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ADRIAEN VAN DER WERFF
"Samson and Delilah"

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SIGISMONDO COCCAPANI
"Sansón and Dalila"

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ARTUS QUELLINUS the Elder
"Dalila Cutting Samson's Hair"

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ALIZA ALLON
"Samson and Delilah"

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ALESSANDRO VAROTARI
"Samson and Delilah"

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JAN STEEN
"Samson and Delilah"

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"Samson und Dalilah"

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REMBRANDT
"Samson and Delilah"

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WILLEM BARTSIUS
"Samson and Delilah"

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DOMENICO FIASELLA
"Samson and Delilah"

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GERARD VAN HONTHORST
"Samson and Delilah"

Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!”

He awoke from his sleep and thought, “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him. Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza.

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REMBRANDT
"The Blinding of Samson"

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Detail
Source

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"Samson's Blinding"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Philistines Gouging Out Samson's Eyes"

Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding in the prison.

But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

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CARL BLOCH
"Samson and the Philistines"

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WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"Samson Grinding in Prison at Gaza"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Samson Turns the Mill in Prison"

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