Verse 4
SAMSON AND DELILAH, Judges 16:4-20.
4. Loved a woman… Delilah She was, doubtless, a Philistine woman, and it comports well with Samson’s history that among the daughters of that people he found his earliest and his latest love. The name
Delilah languishing, or enfeebling suggests, says Cassel, how “sensuality sings and lulls the manly strength of the hero to sleep.”
The valley of Sorek Sorek means a vine or vine plantation, and probably took its name from the extensive cultivation of the grape. No trace of any town of this name has been found; but just south of Zorah runs the Wady-es-Surar, a wide and fertile valley, which, at least, bears some resemblance to the name, and is admirably adapted to the cultivation of the vine.
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