These are the first words of his wife in the narrative. When she finally speaks, she uses the tactic of emotional blackmail to get him to cave in. She charges him that since he has not shared with her his deepest secret, he does not love her.1 Her charge contains within it an implicit justification for pursuing the course of action she has begun. For she herself has already been betrayed by Samson…. Since this secret is his means of manipulating people he wants to humiliate, concealing it from her is incompatible with loving her. If he continues to conceal it, she is justified in betraying him because he has already betrayed her.
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16 And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”