07 Story of Samson and Delilah - Judges 13
07 Story of Samson and Delilah - Judges 13
07 Story of Samson and Delilah - Judges 13
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And Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she
pleases me well."
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But his father and mother did not know that it was of the
LORD--that He was seeking an occasion to move against
the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines had dominion
over Israel. 5So Samson went down to Timnah with his
father and mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah.
Now to his surprise, a young lion came roaring against him.
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And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and
he tore the lion apart as one would have torn apart a young
goat, though he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell
his father or his mother what he had done.
by Matthew Henry,
Judges 14: 5-9
By enabling him to kill a lion, God let Samson know what he could do in the strength of the Spirit
of the Lord, that he might never be afraid to look the greatest difficulties in the face. Our Lord
Jesus having conquered Satan, that roaring lion.
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Then he went down and talked with the woman; and she
pleased Samson well. 8After some time, when he returned
to get her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion.
And behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the carcass
of the lion. 9He took some of it in his hands and went along,
eating. When he came to his father and mother, he gave
some to them, and they also ate. But he did not tell them
that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.
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So his father went down to the woman. And Samson gave
a feast there, for young men used to do so. 11And it
happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty
companions to be with him.
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Then Samson said to them, "Let me pose a riddle to you.
If you can correctly solve and explain it to me within the
seven days of the feast, then I will give you thirty linen
garments and thirty changes of clothing. 13But if you cannot
explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen
garments and thirty changes of clothing."
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And they said to him, "Pose your riddle, that we may hear
it." 14So he said to them:
ٌحل َوَة
َ ت
ْ ج
َ خَر َ ْ ن ال
َ جاِفي َ م ٌ ْ ج أ ُك
ِ َ و،ل َ خَر
َ ل
ِ ِ ن الك
َ م
ِ
Now for three days they could not explain the riddle. --
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Then Samson's wife wept on him, and said, "You only
hate me! You do not love me! You have posed a riddle to
the sons of my people, but you have not explained it to
me." -- 17Now she had wept on him the seven days while
their feast lasted. And it happened on the seventh day that
he told her, because she pressed him so much. Then she
explained the riddle to the sons of her people. 18So the men
of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun
went down:
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After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened
that Samson visited his wife with a young goat. And he
said, "Let me go in to my wife, into her room." But her
father would not permit him to go in.
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Her father said, "I really thought that you thoroughly
hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Is not
her younger sister better than she? Please, take her
instead."
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And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless
regarding the Philistines if I harm them!" 4Then Samson
went and caught three hundred foxes; and he took torches,
turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each
pair of tails. 5When he had set the torches on fire, he let the
foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and
burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, as well
as the vineyards and olive groves.
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Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they
answered, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because
he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." So
the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with
fire.
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Samson said to them, "Since you would do a thing like
this, I will surely take revenge on you, and after that I will
cease." 8 He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them.
Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.
12 They said to him, "We've come to tie you up and hand you over
to the Philistines." Samson said, "Swear to me that you won't kill
me yourselves." 13 "Agreed," they answered. "We will only tie you
up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you." So they bound
him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
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burned with fire, and his bonds broke loose from his hands.
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He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his
hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
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Then he became very thirsty; so he cried out to the LORD
and said, "You have given this great deliverance (this great
victory) by the hand of Your servant; and now shall I die of
thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?" 19So God
split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out,
and he drank; and his spirit returned, and he revived. -
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And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the
Philistines.
3 But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he
got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the
two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his
shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.
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Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley
of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5And the lords of the
Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Entice him, and
find out where his great strength lies, and by what means
we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict
him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred
pieces of silver."
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So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your
great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to
afflict you."
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And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh
bowstrings, not yet dried, then I shall become weak, and
be like any other man."
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So the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven
fresh bowstrings, not yet dried, and she bound him with
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them. 9Now men were lying in wait, staying with her in the
room. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you,
Samson!" But he broke the bowstrings as a strand of yarn
breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength
was not known.
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Then Delilah said to Samson, "Look, you have mocked me
and told me lies. Now, please tell me what you may be
bound with."
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So he said to her, "If they bind me securely with new
ropes that have never been used, then I shall become
weak, and be like any other man."
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Therefore Delilah took new ropes and bound him with
them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you,
Samson!" And men were lying in wait, staying in the room.
But he broke them off his arms like a thread.
--" 16And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with
her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to
death (With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he
was tired to death), 17that he told her all his heart, and said to
her, "No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have
been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am
shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become
weak, and be like any other man."
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When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she
sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying,
"Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart." So
the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the
money in their hand. 19Then she lulled him to sleep on her
knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the
seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him,
and his strength left him. 20And she said, "The Philistines
are upon you, Samson!" So he awoke from his sleep, and
said, "I will go out as before, at other times, and shake
myself free!" But he did not know that the LORD had
departed from him.
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Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes (Then
the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes), and brought him
down to Gaza. They bound him with bronze fetters
(shackles), and he became a grinder in the prison.
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However, the hair of his head began to grow again after it
had been shaven.
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the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he
braced himself against them, one on his right and the other
on his left. 30Then Samson said, "Let me die with the
Philistines!" And he pushed with all his might, and the
temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it.
So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he
had killed in his life. 31 Then his brothers and his father's whole
family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him
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He had judged Israel twenty years.
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Because Samson is just like you and me when we give
ourselves over to sin. In this state, we can easily be
.deceived because the truth becomes impossible to see
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