She fastened it with the pin. — Unless the additions of the Vulg. and the LXX. to the last verse were in the original text, she had not been told by Samson to do this, but did it to make assurance doubly sure. The versions add that she drove the pin “into the wall” (LXX.) or “into the ground” (Vulg.).
Went away with. — Rather, tore up, as in Judges 16:3.
With the pin of the beam, and with the web. — The words are technical, but the “pin” or “plug” seems to be the wooden peg with which the web was fastened down; and the “beam” was certainly not the “weaver’s beam” of 1 Samuel 17:7, but apparently “the comb.” The loom was doubtless one of a simple kind in ordinary domestic use (like that described in Livingstone’s Travels), and Samson, startled from sleep, tore away his locks with the plug which fastened them down and the warp into which they were woven.