4And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-17)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 degree of mischief and danger by the love of women and lusting after them, yet he would not take warning, but is here again taken in the same snare, and this third time pays for all. Solomon seems to ref…
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