In Judges, chapter sixteen, verse nineteen, Samson compromises with Delilah by continuing to disregard God’s instruction to remain separate from the wicked nations of Canaan, as in Deuteronomy seven, verses one through four. “When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.”
Samson failed to realize that compromise with idol worshipers and immoral people opens one’s life to deception, demonic attack, and destruction. See the fatal effects of false security. Satan ruins men by flattering them into an opinion of their safety, bringing them to mind nothing, and fear nothing, and then he robs them of their strength and honor and leads them captive at his will. When we sleep, our spiritual enemies do not. Samson’s eyes were the inlets of his sin, and now his punishment began there. Now the Philistines blinded him: had time to remember how his lust had before blinded him. The best way to preserve the eyes is to turn them away from beholding vanity. Take warning by his fall, carefully to watch against all fleshly lusts; for all our glory is gone, and our defense departed from us, when our separation to God, as spiritual Nazarites, is profaned.