SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:19
Y ella hizo que él se durmiese sobre sus rodillas; y llamado un hombre, le rapó las siete guedejas de su cabeza, y comenzó a afligirlo, y su fuerza se apartó de él.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 16:19
Verse 19. She began to affect him] She had probably tied his hands slyly, while he was asleep, and after having cut off his hair, she began to insult him before she called the Philistines, to try whether he were really reduced to a state of weakness. Finding he could not disengage himself, she called the Philistines, and he, being alarmed, rose up, thinking he could exert himself as before, and shake himself, i.e., disengage himself from his bonds and his enemies: but he wist not that the Lord was departed from him; for as Delilah had cut off his locks while he was asleep, he had not yet perceived that they were gone.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. And she made him sleep upon her knees , etc.] Giving him, as some think, a sleepy potion; or however encouraged him to take a nap upon her knees, and by her fondness lulled him to sleep: and she called for a man; a barber ; in former times to shave was the work of a servant and sometimes of a woman; she gave orders for one to be sent for; for Jarchi calls him a messenger of the lords of the Philistines: and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head ; this shows that they were not wove into one another, and made but one lock, as some interpret what she was before directed to do: and she began to afflict him ; as his hair was shaving off; though he was asleep, yet he discovered some uneasiness, the effects of it began to appear: though the word “began” here may be redundant, as in ( Numbers 25:1 Judges 20:40) and then the meaning is, that she afflicted him, or again afflicted him; for she had afflicted him, or at least attempted it, three times before, and therefore did not begin now; this Hebraism is used in ( Mark 4:1) and frequently in Jewish writings f345 : and his strength went from him ; sensibly and gradually; though some understand it of her shaking him in a violent manner to awake him, and shrieking and crying out terribly to frighten him, with her old cry of the Philistines being on him, and of her binding him, though not expressed; whereby she perceived his strength was gone, and he could not loose himself.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-21 - See the fatal effects of false security. Satan ruins men by flatterin them into a good opinion of their own safety, and so bringing them to mind nothing, and fear nothing; and then he robs them of their strengt and honour, and leads them captive at his will. When we sleep ou spiritual enemies do not. Samson's eyes were the inlets of his sin (ver. #(1),) and now his punishment began there. Now the Philistine blinded him, he had time to remember how his own lust had befor blinded him. The best way to preserve the eyes, is, to turn them awa from beholding vanity. Take warning by his fall, carefully to watc against all fleshly lusts; for all our glory is gone, and our defenc departed from us, when our separation to God, as spiritual Nazarites is profaned.
Original Hebrew
ותישׁנהו 3462 על 5921 ברכיה 1290 ותקרא 7121 לאישׁ 376 ותגלח 1548 את 853 שׁבע 7651 מחלפות 4253 ראשׁו 7218 ותחל 2490 לענותו 6031 ויסר 5493 כחו 3581 מעליו׃ 5921
