The Strongest Man Alive Was Undone by a Woman With Scissors

Samson was born with a vow: never cut his hair, and God would give him supernatural strength. He killed a lion with his bare hands. He once took out a thousand soldiers with the jawbone of a donkey.

Then he fell for Delilah. The Philistines paid her to find out the secret of his strength. She asked. He lied. Three times in a row she set him up; three times he broke free.

She nagged until he finally told her the truth: it was the hair. While he slept on her lap, she had a man shave his head. He woke up, jumped up to fight like always — and didn't know his strength was gone.

They gouged out his eyes and put him to work grinding grain in prison. But his hair started growing back. At a Philistine festival they dragged him out to mock him. He grabbed the temple pillars, prayed once more, and brought the whole building down — taking more enemies in his death than in his life.