# Delilah

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/delilah (Enoch Archive).

Delilah was a Philistine woman who conceived by Samson. While she was with child he died with the Philistines. She brought forth a son named Menahem, interpreted as Seed of the strong man. Delilah was the sister of Maksaba, the wife of the King of the Philistines. After Samson slew the king with his people and died with him, she went to her sister the queen.

Both were beautiful and had conceived, Delilah four months by Samson. She bore a son and the women raised the children in dignity with costly garments, daggers and chains. Her son Akamhel asked why he was not reigning on the throne. She said the throne did not belong to his father and he should go to his father's throne when grown by the God of his father.

**books:** The Kebra Nagast