en_tn_condensed/jdg/16/06.md

bind you, so you might be controlled

"bind you to control you" or "bind you to restrain you". Samson mistakenly thought that he was the source of his strength. He did not realize that Yahweh had left him and without Yahweh, he had no strength. This was not Samson's only mistake. His foreign wife created most of his problems.