Judges 14:20

To his companion. He was probably the main one of the 30 attendants, the one who stood next to him, the one called “the friend of the bridegroom” in John 3:29. To her treason the woman added infidelity. She may not have had any love for Samson in the first place.

Such were the results of a course in direct violation of the express commands of God. If Samson had profited by his experience and had permitted the emptiness and disappointment of sin to drive him to seek a higher way, God might yet have accepted him and permitted him to lead Israel in full triumph against the Philistines. However, God continued to work through Samson to the extent that Samson permitted himself to be used.

The experience of Samson indicates that God does not immediately forsake His servants when they fall into sin. He may continue to bless their efforts, even though they are living in conscious disregard of some specific requirement of God. Inasmuch as no one is without fault, God would be unable to use human instrumentalities in His work, if He could bless only the efforts of the sinless. Since this is true, no one should interpret the blessings of heaven as proof that God approves of all his deeds.