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Jdg_16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.
Ver. 4. And it came to pass afterward.] Not long afterwards, but before he had soundly repented of his former faultiness; the orifice of his lust being not yet stopped. So Lot committed incest two nights together. But of Judah it is expressly noted that, coming to a sight of his sin with Tamar, he "knew her again no more." {Gen_38:26}
In the valley of Sorek.] A pleasant place, full of vines and myrtles. To Samson it proved a valley of vanity.
Whose name was Delilah.] A fit name for a harlot, for it comes from Dalal, which signifieth to exhaust, or to impoverish. It is the property of such female sinners to exhaust the purse, drain the strength, dry up the credit, waste the all of the mightiest Samsons. The Rabbis make Delilah to have been his wife, and further say, that he taught her the law of Moses before he took her; but none of this is likely to be true.