Delilah Agonistes" and Cecil B. DeMille's 1949 Hollywood film "Samson and Delilah". Her name has become associated with treacherous and voluptuous women. Delilah was a woman of Sorek. She is the only woman in Samson's story who is named. The Bible says that Samson loved her () but not that she loved him. The two were not married and the idea that they had a sexual relationship is, in the words of Josey Bridges Snyder, "at most implicit in the biblical text". The lords of the Philistines bribed her to discover the source of Samson's great strength, each offering to give
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