Reference: Samson
Hastings
Mentioned in OT in Jg 13; 14; 15; 16, and in NT in Heb 11:32.
1. The story need not be recapitulated, but certain details require explanation. Jg 13:25 seems to be the prelude to a first exploit, now lost. Jg 13:14 is not clear as it stands; probably 'his father and his mother' in Jg 13:5-6 b, Jg 13:10 a are glosses introduced to avoid the appearance of disobedience. He goes down alone, meets the lion alone, returns to his home after his visit to his bride (Jg 13:8 'to take her' being another gloss); then after an interval he goes back to celebrate the marriage he has arranged; Jg 13:10 a is particularly absurd as it stands. The 'thirty companions' of Jg 13:11 are the 'friends of the bridegroom,' chosen on this occasion from the bride's people (see below,
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I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall eat flesh, From the blood of the wounded and the captivity, From the head of the enemy's leaders.
And Judah will take Gaza and, its bounds, and Askelon and her bounds, and Ekron and her bounds.
And the Amorites will press the sons of Dan to the mountain: for they gave not to come down to the valley:
And now, watch now, and drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean: For behold thee pregnant, and thou bearest a son; and a razor shall not come up upon his head, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of Philisteim.
For behold thee pregnant, and thou bearest a son; and a razor shall not come up upon his head, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of Philisteim. And the woman will go and will say to her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his sight as the sight of the messenger of God, very terrible: and I asked him not from whence he is, and his name he announced not to me.
And Manoah will pray to Jehovah and will say, With leave, my Lord, a man of God which thou sentest will he come now yet to us, and he will teach us what we shall do to the boy being brought forth.
And the woman will hasten and run, and announce to her man, and will say to him, Behold, the man was seen to me who came in the day to me.
And the woman will hasten and run, and announce to her man, and will say to him, Behold, the man was seen to me who came in the day to me. And Manoah will rise and will go after his wife, and will come to the man, and will say to him, Thou the man who spake to the woman? and he will say, I. read more. And Manoah will say, Now shall come thy words. What shall be the judgment of the boy, and his work?
From all going forth from the vine of the wine she shall not eat, and wine and strong drink she shall not drink, and any thing unclean she shall not eat: all which I commanded she shall watch.
From all going forth from the vine of the wine she shall not eat, and wine and strong drink she shall not drink, and any thing unclean she shall not eat: all which I commanded she shall watch.
From all going forth from the vine of the wine she shall not eat, and wine and strong drink she shall not drink, and any thing unclean she shall not eat: all which I commanded she shall watch. And Manoah will say to the messenger of Jehovah, We will detain thee now, and we will do before thee a kid of the goats.
And Manoah will say to the messenger of Jehovah, We will detain thee now, and we will do before thee a kid of the goats.
And Manoah will say to the messenger of Jehovah, What thy name, when shall come thy words and we honored thee? And the messenger of Jehovah will say to him, Wherefore this wilt thou ask for my name, and it is wonderful?
And it will be in the going up of the flame from the altar to the heavens, and the messenger of Jehovah will go up in the flame of the altar and Manoah and his wife seeing; and they will fall upon their face to the earth. And the messenger of Jehovah will no more add to be seen to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he is the messenger of Jehovah.
And the spirit of Jehovah will begin to move him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and between Eshtaol.
And the spirit of Jehovah will begin to move him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and between Eshtaol.
And his father will say to him, and his mother, Is there not among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that thou goest to take a woman from uncircumcised Philisteim? And Samson will say to his father, Take her to me, for she is straight in mine eyes. And his father and his mother knew not that it was from Jehovah that he seeking an occasion from Philisteim; for in this time Philisteim was ruling over Israel
And the spirit of Jehovah will fall suddenly upon him, and he will rend him as rending a kid, and nothing whatever in his hand: and he announced not to his father and to his mother what he did.
And he will turn back after days to take her, and he will turn aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, an assembly of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
And the spirit of Jehovah will fall suddenly upon him, and he will go down to Ashkelon and will strike from them thirty men, and he will take their spoils, and will give exchanges to those. announcing the enigma. And his anger will kindle, and he will go up to his father's house.
And it will be after days in days of the wheat harvest, and Samson will look after his wife with a kid of the goats; and he will say, I will go to my wife to the chamber. And her father gave him not to go in.
And three thousand men of Judah will go down to the cleft of the rock Etam, and they will say to Samson, Knewest thou not that Philisteim is ruling over us? and what this thou didst to us? and he will say to them, As they did to me, so did I to them.
And three thousand men of Judah will go down to the cleft of the rock Etam, and they will say to Samson, Knewest thou not that Philisteim is ruling over us? and what this thou didst to us? and he will say to them, As they did to me, so did I to them.
And they will say to him, saying, No; but binding, we will bind thee and give thee into their hand: and killing, we will not kill thee. And they will bind him with two new cords and will bring him up from the rock. He came even to Lehi, and Philisteim shouted at his meeting: and the spirit of Jehovah will come suddenly upon him, and the cords which were upon his arms will be as flax which was burnt in fire, and his bands will melt from off his hands.
He came even to Lehi, and Philisteim shouted at his meeting: and the spirit of Jehovah will come suddenly upon him, and the cords which were upon his arms will be as flax which was burnt in fire, and his bands will melt from off his hands.
And he will judge Israel in the days of Philisteim twenty years.
And he will judge Israel in the days of Philisteim twenty years.
And Samson will say, My soul shall die with Philisteim. And he will bow with strength, and the house will fall upon the princes and upon all the people which are in it And the dead will be more which he killed in his death than which he killed in his life. And his brethren and all the house of his father will go down and will lift him up, and will bring him up, and bury him between Zorah and between Eshtaol in the grave of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock.
And Benaiah son of Jehoida, son of a living man great of works, from Kabzeel, he struck two lions of god of Moab: and he went down and struck a lion in the midst of a well in the day of snow.
Also God will crush the head of his enemies, the crown of him going about in his faults.
She made the under garment., and she will sell; and she gave a girdle to the Canaanite.
The mirrors and the shirts and the turbans and the veils.
And I will raise up from your sons for prophets, and from your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even this, ye sons of Israel? says Jehovah. And ye will give the Nazarites wine to drink; and ye commanded to the prophets, saying, Ye shall not prophesy.
And what more do I say? for the time will fail me recounting of Gedeon, Barak, and also Samson and Jephthae; David also, and Samuel, and the prophets: