Samson was imprisoned.

Samson was in danger in Gaza, but he escaped by pulling up the city gates through God's strength. Later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah in the Valley of Sorek. The leaders of the Philistines offered Delilah eleven hundred pieces of silver each to find out the secret of Samson's great strength. Delilah asked Samson again and again where his strength came from. The first three times, Samson gave her false answers. Each time she tied him up and called for the Philistines to ambush him, Samson easily broke free. Delilah kept pressuring him every day with her words until Samson was so annoyed that he told her the truth: he had been a Nazirite dedicated to God since birth, and his hair had never been cut. If his hair were shaved, his strength would leave him.