Comment: Samson’s professed love for Delilah, a strange Philistine woman, turned out to be his greatest undoing. Concerning him, an angel proclaimed: “For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” – Judges 13:5.

As a judge in Israel, he used his strength to deliver his people from forty years of captivity from the Philistines (Judges 13:1). He was endowed with ability to perform exceptional feats, even prevailing against a wild beast: “Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.  And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid.” – Judges 14:5,6.

But the disclosure of his true secret to his wife,- that no razor should come on his head Delilah – was the cause of his downfall. (Judges 16:16,17) The “Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.” – Judges 16:16-31.     

We pray God Almighty to help us to remain steadfast in keeping and doing the His commandments.