Samson and Delilah?

Question

Several things:

Why would Samson tell Delilah the secret to his strength after she had already tried to trap him twice?

What are we supposed to learn from this story?

Why was his strength in his hair?

Samson did not follow all of his Nazarite vows before the whole hair cutting off thing. Why was the hair more important than the other times he broke his vow?

Answer 1

Samson, like many people, was so addicted to his sin (in this case women - Delilah was not the only prostitute in his life) that in spite of the danger, he kept going back to her. He had deceived himself into thinking he could get away with it. In the end, he paid the price.

Many people today keep sinning, thinking they can get away with it. In the end, they never do.

As for his strength, it was not in his hair. His strength came from a vow that his parents and he had made to God. They vowed that he would not drink wine, not sleep with foreign women and never cut his hair. It was a tradition that when you made a vow to God, you would not shave or cut your hair until the vow was fulfilled. It was a sign of dedication to God. Samson's power did not come from his hair, but from his dedication to God. since it was a "lifelong" vow, he was to never cut his hair because the vow was to never end.

But one by one, he broken the vows. He was sleeping with Delilah. He was drunk. And finally he allowed his hair to be cut. With the greaking of the last of his vows, he lost the strength that came from the vow.

The lesson: avoid sin. You can not get away with it. It little step into sin gets you deeper and deeper until the day then it takes your vision and your life.

Answer 2

His strength was in his hair because his long hair was a symbol of his obedience to God. His obedience in not cutting his hair is where his real strength lay. Once he disobeyed his strength was gone. I think it was arrogance and blind love that made him trust Delilah enough to give his real secret. If you read the story in a modern translation like the new living translation, it sounds like Delilah really had Samson wrapped around her little finger.
We can learn what happens when we make something or someone more important than obeying God.

Answer 3

First of all Samson was in love with Delilah and wanted to believe in her. Second, Think twice, before putting your total trust in someone. Third, God gave Samson that strength!

Answer 4

Samson told Delilah his secret because he was enamored by her - when she asked, he spilled the beans.

We are to learn to trust in God, not people.

His strength was in his devotion and obedience to God - not cutting his hair was a symbol of that obedience. When he chose Delilah over God, he lost his strength because his devotion and obedience had fallen away, just like the locks of hair.

Answer 5

Samson was disobedient to God's will and continued to be disobedient and because of that, God allowed Samson to be taken in by the enemy.
Samson was told over and over not to go and mingle with Delilah and her people but Samson would not listen and the result was that he was captured, enslaved, blinded and made sport of by his enemies until his death.
The lesson about this is to be obedient to God's will and in time you will be rewarded but if you rebel against God's will then God has a way of disciplining you in various ways mostly by allowing bad things to happen to you so bad that you have no other choice but to listen to God but one must realize that when they go against God and something bad happens to them they brought it on them selves and the only thing that God done was allow it to happen.
Also, the strength in his hair was a gift from God,remember that God works in mysterious ways.

Answer 6

This isn't a little fable just to teach everyone something although it does. It happened. It just shows how man can be enticed and be so easily led into sin. His strength was in his hair because God allowed this to be. The moral of the story is, think with your head and not your loins...

Answer 7

1. Because he was a man.

2. A woman can get anything out of a man if she wants to.
And I don't mean that it's always necessary.

3. That's where God gave him his strength. It was the way he was raised and God honored him with this strength.

Answer 8

(1) Samson was thinking with the wrong "area". (2) Put your trust in God not people. (3) God gave him the strength in his hair.

Answer 9

Why would he tell her? Men do stupid things. It is clear that he was driven by his lust rather than his reason. We are supposed to learn To avoid scheming women. His strength was from YHVH. That gift was given on condition of obedience to his nazarite vow.(which included not cutting his hair)--- Since his hair had never been cut, maybe he didn't believe the gift was conditional.

Answer 10

If a patronymic were mandatory, he ought to were pronounced as ben Manoah to tell apart him from different Samsons, and his tribe, Dan, ought to also serve some applications of identity.