(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Judges 16:18–21, “And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. But 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.”
If you saw that your local television station reported the fact that a large ring of peadophiles had been found and put out of business, would you assume that the television station approve of peadophilia or would you assume that they were just reporting events as they happened? There is a common mistake among people today that the Bible approves of things when the Bible is just reporting events that happened to show the danger of living outside the morals and mores that the Lord God has established for the benefit of the creatures He made in His own image. Many people, for example, suggest that the Bible endorses slavery but the truth is that the
Bible was written in an environment where people had rejected the Lord God and chosen to go their own way. Slavery was a fact in this environment and the people who chose to believe in the Lord God needed to understand how they should cope in a world where slavery was a fact, especially if they had the misfortune to be a slave.
Delilah realised that that Samson had finally told her the truth and he was now in her power. She made him sleep and then called some of the Philistines who shaved his hair. When Delilah woke Samson he didn’t realise that his strength was gone and tried to fight with the Philistines. They were able to capture him and then they blinded him. Traditionally, people have blinded their enemies so that they will be unable to fight again. Even the most powerful person in the world in unable to use all their resources when they are blind. Samson was chained to a mill wheel and forced to walk round and round to grind their grain.
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