Judges 15:13
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock. And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
This is part of the history of Samson, the promised son given to Manoah. His extraordinary physical strength did not come from well-built muscles but from his standing as a Nazarite, marked by his unshorn hair. Had he obeyed the divine commands as faithfully as his parents did, his destiny would have been nobler and happier.
Instead, friendly mingling with the Philistines near Zorah corrupted him, and intimacies begun in his youth darkened his whole life. This began with his insistence on marrying the young woman of Timnath because she pleased him, despite the dissuasion of his God-fearing parents. His history thus shows how a man called to serve God brings himself into peril by yielding to temptation instead of relying on God's strength.
Three thousand men of Judah came to the rock Etam to bind him and hand him over to the Philistines. Even with those odds, they dared to approach him only because they were assured that he would not harm fellow Israelites. He willingly consented to be bound by his own countrymen with two new ropes for delivery into Philistine hands.
He agreed only after making the men of Judah promise that they themselves would not attack him and force him to destroy them. Bound in this way, he was brought up from the rock into the Philistine camp amid their shouts of joy.