It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death.
      I. The affection Samson had for Delilah: he loved her, Judges 16:4; Judges 16:4. Some think she was his wife, but then he would have had her home to his own house; others that he courted her to make her his wife; but there is too much reason to suspect that it was a sinful affection he had for her, and that he lived in uncleanness with her. Whether she was an Israelite or a Philistine is not certain. If an Israelite, which is scarcely probable, yet she had the heart of a Philistine.