Jueces 16:14

14 y^[a] las aseguró con la clavija.Una vez más ella le gritó: «¡Sansón, los filisteos se lanzan sobre ti!» Sansón despertó de su sueño y arrancó la clavija y el telar, junto con la tela.

Jueces 16:14 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 16:14

And she fastened it with the pin
That is, after she had interwoven the locks of his hair into the warp, she fastened the beam on which it was with the pin, that it might not roll back; or else her machine or loom to the ground, that it might stand more firmly; or the web into which the hair was woven, with the hair itself; which of them is right, it is difficult to say: but if the addition of the Septuagint version can be admitted as genuine, which supplies some things which seem to be wanting, and which best agrees with what follows, the whole will be plain and easy, and which after the preceding verse runs thus;

``and fastenest "them" with a pin to the wall, then shall I be weak as another man; and it came to pass when he slept, and Delilah took seven locks of his head, and wove "them" in the web, and fastened them with a pin to the wall;''

and then it follows as here:

and said unto him, the Philistines be upon thee, Samson;
as she had twice before:

and he awaked out of his sleep;
in which he was during her weaving his locks into the web; and this makes it probable that he was in the same circumstances when she bound him both with withs and ropes, though it is not expressed:

and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web;
carried off not the pin of the beam only, but the beam itself, and the warp on it, and the whole web into which his hair was woven. The Septuagint version is, he took the pin of the web out of the wall; and the Vulgate Latin, the pin with the hairs and web.

Jueces 16:14 In-Context

12 Mientras algunos filisteos estaban al acecho en el cuarto, Dalila tomó sogas nuevas y lo ató, y luego le gritó:—¡Sansón, los filisteos se lanzan sobre ti!Pero él rompió las sogas que ataban sus brazos, como quien rompe un hilo.

13 Entonces Dalila le dijo a Sansón:—¡Hasta ahora te has burlado de mí, y me has dicho mentiras! Dime cómo se te puede atar.—Si entretejes las siete trenzas de mi cabello con la tela del telar, y aseguras esta con la clavija —respondió él—, me debilitaré y seré como cualquier otro hombre.Entonces, mientras él dormía, Dalila tomó las siete trenzas de Sansón, las entretejió con la tela

14 y las aseguró con la clavija.Una vez más ella le gritó: «¡Sansón, los filisteos se lanzan sobre ti!» Sansón despertó de su sueño y arrancó la clavija y el telar, junto con la tela.

15 Entonces ella le dijo: «¿Cómo puedes decir que me amas, si no confías en mí? Ya van tres veces que te burlas de mí, y aún no me has dicho el secreto de tu tremenda fuerza».

16 Como todos los días lo presionaba con sus palabras, y lo acosaba hasta hacerlo sentirse harto de la vida,

Footnotes

• [a]. "—Si entretejes " "… " "la tela " 14?"y " (algunos mss. de LXX); "—Hay que entretejer las siete trenzas de mi cabello en la tela del telar —respondió él. / " 14?"Así que ella " (TM).