Judges 16:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

He loved a woman in the valley of Sorek Through which passed the river of the same name. This place, famous for its vines, was about a mile and a half from Eshcol, whence the spies brought their bunch of grapes. Here Samson met with Delilah, who, whether she was a Jewess or a Philistine, was probably a harlot, and not, as Chrysostom and some others have asserted, a woman of reputation married by Samson; because the dreadful punishment now inflicted upon him for his intercourse with her, after God had spared him for the first offence, certainly manifests that this sin was not inferior to the former.

Judges 16:4

4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.