Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

If the Israelites had been ready to join with Samson and follow
up the victory, they might have freed themselves from their
oppressors, but they had become discouraged and had neglected the
work God commanded them to do in driving out the heathen.
Instead, they had united with them in their degrading practices, and
had tamely submitted to shameful oppression that they might have
escaped if they had obeyed God. Even when the Lord raised up a
deliverer for them, too often they would desert him and unite with
their enemies.
Samson's Wrong Marriage
After his victory the Israelites made Samson judge, and he
ruled Israel for twenty years. But Samson had disobeyed the
command of God by taking a wife from the Philistines, and again he
dared to go out among them--now his deadly enemies--to indulge
unlawful passion. Trusting to his great strength, he went to Gaza to
visit a prostitute. Those living in the city learned he was there and
were eager for revenge. Their enemy was shut safely within the
walls of their most strongly fortified city. They felt sure of their
victim, and only waited until morning to complete their triumph.
At midnight the accusing voice of conscience filled Samson
with guilt as he remembered that he had broken his vow as a
Nazirite. But God's mercy had not forsaken him, and His
tremendous strength was again there to deliver him. Going to the
city gate, he wrenched it from its place and carried it to the top of a
hill on the way to Hebron.
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