Judges 16:10
And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
Judges 16:10 belongs to the account of Samson's entanglements with the Philistines, and those relationships, including his later involvement with Delilah, corrupted his life and cost him the nobler destiny he might have fulfilled. In the verse Delilah accuses Samson of mocking her and telling her lies about how he might be bound, and presses him, I pray thee, to tell her wherewith he might be bound, while still holding him in her plot to destroy him. The verse belongs to his failure under temptation, in which he did not make God his strength but let passion control him on a path ending in shame, disaster, and death.
Infatuated with Delilah, Samson became captive to her influence and schemes and was drawn away from God to betray the strength God had given him. By yielding to her he broke his sacred Nazarite pledge and gave to her the love and service due to God, sacrificing his honor and conscience. Through sinful indulgence he sacrificed his reputation, strength, and usefulness.
The verse shows Samson entrapped and destroyed by the soul-ensnaring power exerted when woman is enlisted in Satan's service, a power by which many strong men have been slain. In the verse he betrayed his strength, which was the defense of Israel, into Philistine hands, just as Israel, which Midian could not overcome by arms or by enchantments, fell prey to its harlots. Blinded and deceived by Delilah's charms to his ruin, the episode reaching from Judges 16:4-21 warns that lust enslaves and destroys anyone who fails to discern it.
The account of Delilah's deception illustrates how a person is lured and destroyed by deceptive temptation, warning against failing to recognize Satan's power to deceive and against confusing Christ's love with lust of the flesh. The verse warns that a wife put before God can become a Delilah-like snare, drawing a person farther from God as his strength diminishes.