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
Delilah Pierce the River Jordan, Cairo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, and Dakar. She was a member of the Smith-Mason Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, as well as, the Old Sculpin Gallery and Cousen Rose Gallery’s in Massachusetts. Her work is among the permanent collections in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, University of District of Columbia, Howard University, Evans-Tibbs Collection, Barnett-Aden Collection, Smith-Mason Gallery of Art, and Bowie State College. A month before her death in 1992, she obtained an honorary degree from the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC (DHL). She supported local education. Delilah Pierce Delilah Williams Pierce