Delilah The Bible does not mention her fate, and, as James D. G. Dunn and John William Rogerson note in "Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible", it never discusses whether Delilah felt guilt for her actions. Josephus and Pseudo-Philo both view Delilah as a Philistine and a prostitute; Josey Bridges Snyder theorizes that this may be due to the fact that Book of Judges portrays Samson as being attracted to both Philistine women () and prostitutes (). Pseudo-Philo also writes that Delilah was Samson's wife. The Talmud says that Delilah used sex to get Samson to reveal his secret, in spite of
Samson and Delilah (Rubens) seen in Frans Fracken the Younger's painting "Banquet at the House of Burgomaster Rockox", where the painting is hanging above the mantlepiece. Jacob Matham, a Haarlem printmaker, used the Cincinnati oil sketch of "Samson and Delilah" as a modello for an engraving he made in circa 1613. The engraving is a reverse image of "Samson and Delilah". Samson and Delilah (Rubens) Samson and Delilah is a painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) which is currently on display in the National Gallery. It dates from about 1609 to 1610. Two preliminary copies of the painting also exist