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The Bible In Paintings >>> Women in the Bible Series ✝️ DELILAH BETRAYS SAMSON FOR MONEY ✝️

Posted on 08/17/2023 6:45:29 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6










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WOMEN IN THE BIBLE
DELILAH BETRAYS
SAMSON FOR MONEY



JUDGES 16

THE HAPPY COUPLE

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




1
ALEXANDRE CABANEL
"Samson et Dalila"




2
JOSÉ ECHENAGUSIA ERRAZQUIN
"Samson and Delilah"




3
JAMES TISSOT
"Samson and Delilah"



THE CONSPIRACY BEGINS

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.”




4



DELILAH NAGS
AND NAGS AND NAGS

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.”

. . . .


“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.




5
WILLIAM BLAKE
"Samson Breaks the Shackles"




6
PIERRE-PAUL-LÉON GLAIZE
"Samson Breaking His Chains"



DELILAH CUTS
SAMSON’S HAIR

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.




7
JAMES TISSOT
"Samson Confie à Dalila le Secret de sa Force"




8
LUCAS CRANACH the Elder
"Samson and Delilah"




9
"Detail"




10
GUERCINO
"Samson and Delilah"




11
TERRY STRICKLAND
"Samson and Delilah, Trust and Betrayal"




12
FRANCESCO MORONE
"Samson and Dalila"




13
TINTORETTO
"Samson and Delilah"




14
REMBRANDT
"Samson and Delilah"




15
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
"Samson and Delilah"




16
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Samson and Delilah"




17
MATTHIAS STOM
"Samson and Delilah"




18
GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Samson and Delilah"




19
PIETRO MALOMBRA
"Samson and DelilahEWA"




20
JAN LIEVENS
"Samson and Delilah"




21
JAN VOORHOUT
"Samson and Delilah"




22
GIOVANNI BATTISTA LUCINI
"Samson and Delilah"




23
HENDRICK DE SOMER
"Samson and Delilah"




24
LORENZO LIPPI
"Samson and Delilah"




25
GIUSEPPE NUVOLONE
"Delilah Cutting Samson's Hair"




26
EUGÈNE DELACROIX
"Samson et Dalila"




27
"Samson"




28
ADRIAEN VAN DER WERFF
"Samson and Delilah"




29
SIGISMONDO COCCAPANI
"Sansón and Dalila"




30
ARTUS QUELLINUS the Elder
"Dalila Cutting Samson's Hair"




31
ALIZA ALLON
"Samson and Delilah"




32
ALESSANDRO VAROTARI
"Samson and Delilah"




33
JAN STEEN
"Samson and Delilah"




34
"Samson und Dalilah"




35
REMBRANDT
"Samson and Delilah"




36
WILLEM BARTSIUS
"Samson and Delilah"




37
DOMENICO FIASELLA
"Samson and Delilah"




39
GERARD VAN HONTHORST
"Samson and Delilah"



DELILAH SPRINGS HER TRAP

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.




40
REMBRANDT
"The Blinding of Samson"




41
Detail
Source




42
"Samson's Blinding"




43
GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Philistines Gouging Out Samson's Eyes"



THE PHILISTINES
ENSLAVE SAMSON

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.




44
CARL BLOCH
"Samson and the Philistines"




45




46
WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"Samson Grinding in Prison at Gaza"




47




48
JAMES TISSOT
"Samson Turns the Mill in Prison"





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New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
Masthead Painting: “GUEST” by Andrey Mironov





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1 posted on 08/17/2023 6:45:29 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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2 posted on 08/17/2023 6:46:46 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

....and thus was created the first ‘Mullet’......................


3 posted on 08/17/2023 6:49:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

His name was Samson, not Billy Bob...................


4 posted on 08/17/2023 6:55:52 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

The story says she shaved off his locks on the sides, which was what the Nazarite would have worn in those days, similar to what Hasidic Jews wear today. After the shave and a haircut, it would resemble a ‘Mullet’...................


5 posted on 08/17/2023 7:00:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

OK, thanks......................


6 posted on 08/17/2023 7:04:31 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Beautiful if also NSFW.


7 posted on 08/17/2023 7:11:50 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Orthodox Jewish men with naturally straight hair wearing sidelocks (or peyot curls) according to Jewish law.

Now Samson had seven locks, so they would have gone all around his head to the back from both sides.

She ordered her servant to shave off the seven braids and.......

8 posted on 08/17/2023 7:14:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: No name given

The Bible is NSFW.


9 posted on 08/17/2023 7:19:58 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks. Glad Gentiles like me aren’t included—I look funny enough already...................


10 posted on 08/17/2023 7:22:28 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

11 posted on 08/17/2023 7:27:24 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: Hebrews 11:6
How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me?

ROFL!!!

"Why should I put up with you at all when you literally betrayed me to my mortal enemies THREE TIMES?!?!?!?!?!"

12 posted on 08/17/2023 7:28:25 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Plus, Hedy Lamarr was a brainiac!


13 posted on 08/17/2023 7:28:39 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Good Morning Dan, and good day to all.

Wow, what a collection. And a story appropriate for us to consider our own ‘closely held accoutrements of weakness’

#17 Stom; with avaricious crone,

and #44 Bloch; such glee from the wicked. Both classics.

Thank You Dan!!


14 posted on 08/17/2023 7:28:49 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: NorthMountain

Domestic bliss....


15 posted on 08/17/2023 7:31:37 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6; Red Badger

What came first ?

The Mullet or the Pullet ?


16 posted on 08/17/2023 7:32:05 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: spankalib
She sure was. Blazing Saddles agrees....
17 posted on 08/17/2023 7:33:06 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
It must have been spectacular, to put up with all the nagging.
18 posted on 08/17/2023 7:35:45 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: InkStone

God blessed me with the most wonderful wife.


19 posted on 08/17/2023 7:36:51 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Don’t ever make fun of a Hasidic’s haircut. They don’t suffer fools gladly.............


20 posted on 08/17/2023 7:53:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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