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The oratorio is almost entirely set inside Samson's prison [80] and Delilah only briefly appears in Part II. [80] In 1877, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the opera Samson and Delilah with a libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire in which the entire story of Samson and Delilah is retold. [80]
Delilah from the Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum. Delilah was a woman of Sorek. [2] She is the only woman in Samson's story who is named. [5] The Bible says that Samson loved her (Judges 16:4) but not that she loved him. [5]
Judges 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, [2] [3] but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans in the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to nationalistic and devotedly Yahwistic writers during the time of the ...
Alternative singer PJ Harvey mentions the story of Samson and Delilah in her song "Hair." The Arctic Monkeys music video Black Treacle is a take on the story of Samson and the lion. Christian comedian Tim Hawkins wrote a parody of the Plain White-T's song "Hey There, Delilah" based on the story of Samson and Delilah.
"Samson and Delilah" (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), an episode of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Samson and Delilah, the club mascots of the Sunderland A.F.C. English football club "Samson and Delilah" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence in his short story collection England, My England and Other Stories
Folk etymology mentioned in the Midrash (Numbers Rabbah 9) states that the sorek is a "fruitless tree" (the word ריק req means "empty" in Hebrew), implying a moral lesson and metaphor suggesting that Samson's involvement in his affair with Delilah was eventually "fruitless".
Emmerdale star Sam Hall has revealed why his character Samson Dingle finally tells the truth about what happened on the day he was stabbed.
The story does not call Delilah a Philistine. The valley of Sorek was Danite territory that had been overrun by Philistines, so the population there would have been mixed. Delilah was likely an Israelite or the story would have said otherwise. The Philistines offered Delilah an enormous sum of money to betray Samson.