When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”

So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.