SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:20
Y ella le dijo: ¡Sansón, los filisteos sobre ti! Y él, cuando se despertó de su sueño, dijo entre sí : Esta vez saldré como las otras, y me escaparé; no sabiendo que el SEÑOR ya se había apartado de él.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. And she said, the Philistines be upon thee, Samson , etc.] In like manner as she had before, that she might have full proof that the case was really such, that his strength was gone from him: and he awoke out of his sleep ; upon the cry she made: and said; within himself, purposing and determining in his own mind: I will go out as at other times before ; as he had done at the three former times, and did not meet with any Philistines to fall upon him, and so concluded it would be the case now, and he, if he did, should be able to defend himself against them: and shake myself ; that he might be thoroughly awake, and be on his guard and defence: and he wist not that the Lord was departed from him ; might have forgot what he had told Delilah of, and knew not what had been done to him, that his hair was shaved off; or if he did, was not sensible that the Lord had removed from him; but might hope that he would renew his strength, when he should stand in need of it; but he soon found his mistake; he was quickly taken by the Philistines, and ill used, and in a little time lost his life. And from hence it is thought sprung the story of Nisus, king of the Megarenses, who is supposed to reign about this time; of whom it is reported f346 , that the hair of his head was of a purple colour, and was told by the oracle, that so long as that was kept on he should be safe, but if it was shaved off he should die; and so it was, that when the Cretians besieged him, his daughter falling in love with Minos, the king of the Cretians cut off her father’s hair, and so both he and his country were delivered into the hands of the enemy.
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
ותאמר 559 פלשׁתים 6430 עליך 5921 שׁמשׁון 8123 ויקץ 3364 משׁנתו 8142 ויאמר 559 אצא 3318 כפעם 6471 בפעם 6471 ואנער 5287 והוא 1931 לא 3808 ידע 3045 כי 3588 יהוה 3068 סר 5493 מעליו׃ 5921
