With such nagging [Delilah] prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.

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.”

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.

1
JAMES TISSOT
"Samson Confie à Dalila le Secret de sa Force"

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GUERCINO
"Samson and Delilah"

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FRANCESCO MORONE
"Samson and Dalila"

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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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LORENZO LIPPI
"Samson and Delilah"

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SIGISMONDO COCCAPANI
"Sansón and Dalila"

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JAN STEEN
"Samson and Delilah"

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"Samson und Dalilah"

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WILLEM BARTSIUS
"Samson and Delilah"

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DOMENICO FIASELLA
"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…

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WILLIAM BLAKE
"Samson Subdued"

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NICOLAS-ANDRE MONSIAU
"The Capture of Samson"

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JOOS VAN WINGHE
"The Capture of Samson by the Philistines"

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ANTHONY VAN DYCK
"Samson and Delilah"

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LOUIS FINSON
"Samson and Dalila"

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GUERCINO
"Samson Captured by the Philistines"

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JOSEPH-DÉSIRÉ COURT
"Samson et Dalila"

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SOLOMON JOSEPH SOLOMON
"Samson"

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ELIHU VEDDER
"Samson Tied"

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THOMAS BADGER
"Samson Taken by the Philistines"

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes…

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REMBRANDT
"The Blinding of Samson"

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"Samson's Blinding"

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"Blind Samson"

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GIOACCHINO ASSERETO
"Philistines Gouging Out Samson's Eyes"

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding in the prison.

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

Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, “Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.”

When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,
    “Our god has delivered our enemy
    into our hands,
    the one who laid waste our land
    and multiplied our slain.”

While they were in high spirits, they shouted, “Bring out Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them.

When they stood him among the pillars, Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.” Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform. Then Samson prayed to the LORD, “O Sovereign LORD, remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.” Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.

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JAN HAVICKSZ. STEEN
"The Mocking of Samson"

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ANTOINE LOUIS ROMANET
"Samson"

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Genoese School
"The Death of Samson"

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JOHANN GEORG PLATZER
"Samson's Revenge"

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LESSER URY
"Samson"

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PHILIP GALLE
"Samson Destroying the Temple of the Philistines"

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VOJTĚCH HYNAIS
"Death of Samson"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Samson in Dagon Temple"

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JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"Samson"

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"Samson Destroys the Temple"

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"Samson"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Samson Pulls Down the Pillars"

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CHARLES GUÉRIN
"Samson Destroys the Temple of Dagon"

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NORMAN ROCKWELL
"Samson"

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Bolognese School
"Samson Destroying the Philistine Temple"

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