BRAGADAYJAH 772
Delilah Gets Her Wish
After days of constant urging and
pleading, Samson gave in and told Delilah, “There has never come a razor on my
head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb. If I be shaven, then my strength will go from
me; and I shall become weak like any other man.” And as soon as Delilah saw
that Samson had spoken to her from the heart, she sent and called for the lords
of the Philistines and told them, to come this last time; for surely Samson had
revealed to her the innermost secret of his heart. So the lords of the Philistines
came to Delilah and paid her off. After that, Delilah lulled Samson into falling
asleep on her lap, and then got a man to come in while he was asleep and shave
off the seven locks on his head. Then
she herself started to beat up on Samson and even she was stronger than he; and
so she shouted for the last time, “The Philistines are upon thee Samson;” and
this time he awoke out of his sleep, he thought to himself that he would go out
as before and shake himself and gather his strength; but he did not know that the
Lord had departed from him.
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