Hakim-hakim 16:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka diceritakannyalah kepadanya segala isi hatinya, katanya: "Kepalaku tidak pernah kena pisau cukur, sebab sejak dari kandungan ibuku aku ini seorang nazir Allah. Jika kepalaku dicukur, maka kekuatanku akan lenyap dari padaku, dan aku menjadi lemah dan sama seperti orang-orang lain."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka diceritakannyalah kepadanya segala isi hatinya, katanya: "Kepalaku tidak pernah kena pisau cukur, sebab sejak dari kandungan ibuku aku ini seorang nazir Allah. Jika kepalaku dicukur, maka kekuatanku akan lenyap dari padaku, dan aku menjadi lemah dan sama seperti orang-orang lain."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dinyatakanlah kepadanya segala rahasia hatinya, katanya: Belum pernah kepalaku kena pisau cukur, karena aku ini seorang nazir Allah mulai dari pada rahim ibuku; jikalau kiranya kepalaku dicukur, niscaya kesaktianku itu kelak undur dari padaku dan aku menjadi lemah seperti segala orang lain.

Contextual Overview

⁴ And after this, he loued a woman by the ryuer of Sorek, whose name was Dalila. ⁵ Unto whom came the lordes of the Philistines, and sayde vnto her: Perswade him, and see wherin his great strength lyeth, and by what meanes we may ouercome him, that we may bynde him, and punishe hym: and euery one of vs shall geue thee a leuen hundred siluer lynges. ⁶ And Dalila sayde to Samson: Oh, tell me where thy great strength lyeth, and how thou myghtest be bounde and brought vnder. ⁷ Samson aunswered vnto her: Yf they binde me with seuen greene wythes that were neuer dryed, I shalbe weake, and be as an other man. ⁸ And then the lordes of the Philistines brought her seuen wythes that were yet greene & neuer dryed, and she bound hym therwith. ⁹ (Notwithstanding she had men lying in wayte with her in the chaumbre): And she said vnto him, The Philistines be vpon thee Samson. And immediatly he brake the cordes, as a stryng of towe breaketh when it fealeth fire. And so his strength was not knowen. ¹⁰ And Dalila sayde vnto Samson: See, thou hast mocked me, and tolde me lies: Now therfore tell me wherwith thou myghtest be bounde. ¹¹ He aunswered her: Yf they bynde me with newe ropes that neuer were occupied, I shall be weake, and be as an other man. ¹² Dalila therfore toke newe ropes, and bounde him therwith, and sayde vnto him, The Philistines be vpo thee Samson. (And there were lyers of wayte in the chamber.) And he brake them from of his armes, as they had ben but a threade. ¹³ And Dalila sayde vnto Samson, Hytherto thou hast beguyled me, and tolde me lyes: Yet tell me howe thou myghtest be bounde. He sayde vnto her: Yf thou plattest the seuen lockes of my head with the threades of the wooffe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all his heart: Proverbs 12:23, Proverbs 29:12, Micah 7:5

There hath: Judges 13:5, Numbers 6:5, Acts 18:18

Reciprocal: Proverbs 29:11 - General Lamentations 4:7 - Nazarites Acts 21:24 - that they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That he told her all his heart,.... All that was in his heart concerning this affair, all that he knew relating to it; he had told her something before, or at least what came nearer to the truth of the matter, when he directed her to the weaving of his locks into the web; but now he told her all, which is as follows:

and said unto her, there hath not come a razor upon mine head; his head had never been shaved since he was born; which was the order of the angel that foretold his birth, and it had been carefully observed to that time:

for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb; one condition of which, or what was enjoined a Nazarite, was, that he should not be shaved, and which had been religiously observed in Samson; and whereas abstinence from wine and strong drink was another part of the law of Nazariteship, or what such persons were obliged unto, what Josephus says concerning Samson being drunk in the above cases could not be true; since his Nazariteship would have been made void by it, and so have affected his strength: but it must be owned that there were other things Nazarites were obliged to, which were dispensed with, as has been observed in the case of Samson, a perpetual Nazarite; and therefore it is probable, that the principal thing he was to regard, and upon which his strength was continued, was not shaving his head:

if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man; in which he says more than he ever did before, namely, that his strength should go from him; for though that did not arise from his hair, yet the keeping on of that was the condition of his retaining it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 16:17. If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me — The miraculous strength of Samson must not be supposed to reside either in his hair or in his muscles, but in that relation in which he stood to God as a Nazarite, such a person being bound by a solemn vow to walk in a strict conformity to the laws of his Maker. It was a part of the Nazarite's vow to permit no razor to pass on his head; and his long hair was the mark of his Nazirate, and of his vow to God. When Samson permitted his hair to be shorn off, he renounced and broke his Nazir vow; in consequence of which God abandoned him, and therefore we are told, in Judges 16:20, that the Lord was departed from him.