Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 16:19

19 And she made him sleep upon her knees , and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head, and she began to afflict him , and his strength went from him .

By some sleepy Potion, which it is like she gave him upon other pretences, agreeable enough to his present and vitiated inclination.

Resting his head upon her knees.

With a gentle hand, as if she her self had but been sporting with him. She did this more securely; partly, because she had cast him into a deep Sleep; and partly, because, if he had discovered it before it was finished, she would have said, it was onely an innocent intention to try the sincerity of his Affection to her, and the truth of this last relation, which she had so just reason to doubt of, from his frequent dissimulation and lyes.

i. e. To disturb, and awaken, and affright him, as by other ways, so particularly by crying out in a terrible manner, The Philistines are upon thee, as she had done before, and as it follows v. 20.

Which, as is here implyed, the perceived, because he could not now shake himself as he did before, i. e. with equal vigour and might, as is intimated in the ne[illegible: 1+ letters]t verse: or, because she had bound him, though it be not here expressed, and found him unable to break his bonds.