Standing dish depicting Samson crushing the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, enamel on copper by Pierre Courteys, c. 1580; in the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. When reading the account of Samson's life and then his downfall with Delilah, you might tend to think Samson wasted his life and that he was a failure. Samson Samson demolishing the temple of the god Dagon, 19th-century chromolithograph. Samson was a man of unmatched physical strength, but when he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, he met his match. The fact that he pulled down the roof on which there were 3,000 men and women is not at all impossible, as Mr. Macalister has shown. [9][42], In the Talmudic period, some seem to have denied that Samson was a historical figure, regarding him instead as a purely mythological personage. Samson had spiritual power and performed feats which an ordinary man would hardly perform. .../s/samson's.htm - 7k, Delilah (7 Occurrences)... She was bribed by the "lords of the Philistines" to obtain from Samson the secret of his strength and the means of overcoming it (Judges 16:4-18). Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels[a] of silver.”(L), 6 So Delilah(M) said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”, 7 Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”. Samson possessed extraordinary physical strength, and the moral of his saga relates the disastrous loss of his power to his violation of the Nazirite vow, to which he was bound by his mother’s promise to the angel. (1) His marriage with a Philistine woman of Timnah (Judges 14). [18] Samson loses his strength and he is captured by the Philistines who blind him by gouging out his eyes. Three times Samson deceived her as to the secret of his strength, but at last he explains that he is a Nazirite, and that his hair, which has never been shorn, is the secret of his wonderful power. Hast thou not heard concerning Samson the Nazarite, "with whom was the Spirit of God," [474] the man of great strength? He told her that shaving his head would make him weak. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron. They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, Let be until morning light, then we will kill him. "(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), Judges 15:12They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." This achievement raised Samson to the position of a judge, which he held for twenty years. 1161). No doubt, as he sat in prison, blind and zapped of strength, Samson felt like a failure. That God miraculously supplied his thirst (Judges 15:19) is no more marvelous than what God did for Hagar in the wilderness (Genesis 21:19). It is related in Judges 13-16. We cannot abuse any gifts God has given us. (2) Articles on "Samson" in the various Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; in particular those by Budde, HDB; C. W. Emmet, in 1-vol HDB; S. A. Cook, New Encyclopedia Brit; Davis, Dict. Into some cleft ("top, " AV, ; RV, "cleft") of a rock here Samson retired after his slaughter of the Philistines (Judges 15:8, 11). (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), Judges 16:10Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, please, with which you might be bound. If they could solve it, he would give them thirty pieces of fine linen and garments, but if they could not solve it, they would give him thirty pieces of fine linen and garments. At the end of his life, God restored Samson's strength. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), Samson is Avenged for the Estrangement of his Wife, Samson is Blinded by the Philistines and Confined to Hard Labor in Prison, Samson: Cohabits With Delilah, a Prostitute; Her Machinations With the Philistines to Overcome Him, Samson: Desires a Philistine Woman for his Wife; Kills a Lion, Samson: His Marriage Feast and the Riddle Propounded, Samson: Kills One-Thousand Philistines With the Jawbone of a Donkey, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Fragment xxvii.
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