Sampson and Delilah

In the story of Sampson and Delilah, Sampson was the Judge of people. He fell in love with a prostitute named, Delilah. Delilah favored selfishness and riches over Sampson. Delilah manipulated Sampson using his love for her to reveal the secret to his strength. Since love is blind, Sampson told her his secret. Using that secret, she betrayed him by turning him over to the Philistines in exchange for twenty-eight pounds of silver.

The Philistines gouged out Sampson’s eyes; blinding him, chained him with Bronze shackles and sent him to prison to grind grain. No other word of Delilah is mentioned after she betrays Sampson! Eventually, Sampson took revenge by breaking the pillars of the temple, violently killing himself along with three thousand men, women and children who were crushed as the temple completely collapsed, burying everybody.
Samson gave a woman all he had; and that woman gave-him-over to bondage. Delilah, the prostitute who was dishonest, disloyal and dramatically selfish, was rewarded for manipulating a man who loved her. Sampson metaphorically blinded himself using love; then, Delilah physically blinded Sampson using greed.
When a man Loves a woman, that woman controls his world.

Chip Van Hassel

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