SAMSON

SAMSON

• A judge (leader, hero) of Israel: Judg.16.31
• A Danite, son of Manoah; miraculous birth of; a Nazarite from his mother' s womb; the mother forbidden to drink wine or strong drink, or to eat any ceremonially unclean thing during gestation: Judg.13.2-Judg.13.7, Judg.13.24, Judg.13.25
• Desires a Philistine woman for his wife; kills a lion: Judg.14.1-Judg.14.7
• His marriage feast and the riddle propounded: Judg.14.8-Judg.14.19
• Kills thirty Philistines: Judg.14.19
• Wife of, estranged: Judg.14.20, Judg.15.1, Judg.15.2
• Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife: Judg.15.3-Judg.15.8
• His great strength: Judg.15.7-Judg.15.14, Heb.11.32
• Kills one-thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey: Judg.15.13-Judg.15.17
• Miraculously supplied with water: Judg.15.18, Judg.15.19
• Cohabits with Delilah, a prostitute; her machinations with the Philistines to overcome him: Judg.16.1-Judg.16.20
• Is blinded by the Philistines and confined to hard labor in prison; pulls down the pillars of the temple, meets his death, and kills a multitude of his enemies: Judg.16.21-Judg.16.31, Heb.11.32