Judges 16:16
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him,.... Lay at him day after day to communicate the secret to him, gave him no rest, but was incessant in her applications to…
The burnt child dreads the fire; yet Samson, that has more than the strength of a man, in this comes short of the wisdom of a child; for, though he had been more than once brought into the highest…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
she pressed him Cf. Jdg 14:17. When it came to testing the higher kind of strength, Samson failed. -I to myself was false ere thou to me"; Milton, Samson Agonistes, 824.
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