Samson
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Judges 13:24 names him: “The woman bore a son and named him Samson.” At 13:24–25 the child grows, the LORD blesses him, and the LORD’s Spirit begins to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. In chapter 14 he tells his father and his mother to get him as his wife a woman he saw in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines; the LORD’s Spirit comes mightily on him and he tears a young lion; and at the feast he tells his thirty companions a riddle: “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” He goes down to Ashkelon and strikes thirty men of them. In chapter 15 he burns the standing grain of the Philistines with three hundred foxes and torches; he lives in the cave in Etam’s rock, and three thousand men of Judah bind him; at Lehi he strikes a thousand men with a fresh jawbone of a donkey; and when he is very thirsty, God splits the hollow place that is in Lehi, and he drinks and revives. 15:20 says he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines. At 16:1–3 he carries the doors of the gate of Gaza, with the two posts, bar and all, up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron. At 16:4–21 he loves Delilah, a woman in the valley of Sorek, and tells her all his heart: “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb.” The seven locks of his head are shaved off and his strength goes from him, and the Philistines put out his eyes and bring him down to Gaza, and he grinds at the mill in the prison. At 16:23–30 the lords of the Philistines gather to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and Samson is called out of the prison and set between the pillars; he takes hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rests and says, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bows himself with all his might, and the house falls; the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life. At 16:31 his brothers and all the house of his father bury him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father, and the verse says he judged Israel twenty years.
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- HEB 11:32–40, engwebp
32What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets—
33who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
37They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
38of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
39These all, having been commended for their faith, didn’t receive the promise,
40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
- JDG 13:24–25, engwebp
24The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
25The LORD’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- JDG 14:1–4, engwebp
1Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
2He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
3Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
4But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
- JDG 14:5–9, engwebp
5Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
6The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.
7He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
8After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
9He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.
- JDG 14:10–14, engwebp
10His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
11When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
12Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
13but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”
14He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.
- JDG 14:15–18, engwebp
15On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”
16Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
17She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
- JDG 14:19–20, engwebp
19The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.
20But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.
- JDG 15:1–3, engwebp
1But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
2Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”
3Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
- JDG 15:4–6, engwebp
4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
5When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
6Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
- JDG 15:7–8, engwebp
7Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
- JDG 15:9–13, engwebp
9Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
10The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
11Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
12They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
13They spoke to him, saying, “No, but we will bind you securely and deliver you into their hands; but surely we will not kill you.” They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
- JDG 15:14–17, engwebp
14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burned with fire; and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.
16Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”
17When he had finished speaking, he threw the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath Lehi.
- JDG 15:18–20, engwebp
18He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
20He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
- JDG 16:1–3, engwebp
1Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
2The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”
3Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
- JDG 16:4–5, engwebp
4It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
5The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
- JDG 16:6–9, engwebp
6Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
7Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
8Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
9Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
- JDG 16:10–12, engwebp
10Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
11He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then I will become weak, and be as another man.”
12So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
- JDG 16:13–14, engwebp
13Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”
14She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.
- JDG 16:15–17, engwebp
15She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
16When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.
17He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
- JDG 16:18–22, engwebp
18When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand.
19She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
20She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had departed from him.
21The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
22However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
- JDG 16:23–25, engwebp
23The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
24When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”
25When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;
- JDG 16:26–30, engwebp
26and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.”
27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
28Samson called to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
29Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.
30Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
- JDG 16:31, engwebp
31Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
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Took part in (22) — The woman bears Samson, and the LORD’s Spirit begins to move him, Samson tells his father and his mother to get him the woman he saw in Timnah as his wife, Samson tears a young lion, and later takes honey out of the lion’s body, The riddle Samson tells his thirty companions at the feast, Samson’s wife tells the riddle to the children of her people, Samson strikes thirty men at Ashkelon and goes up to his father’s house, Samson visits his wife, and her father won’t allow him to go in, Samson lets three hundred foxes with torches go into the standing grain of the Philistines, Samson strikes the Philistines with a great slaughter and lives in the cave in Etam’s rock, Three thousand men of Judah bind Samson with two new ropes and bring him up from the rock, At Lehi Samson strikes a thousand men with a fresh jawbone of a donkey, Samson, very thirsty, calls on the LORD, and God splits the hollow place that is in Lehi, Samson carries the doors of the gate of Gaza to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron, The lords of the Philistines tell Delilah, whom Samson loves, to entice him, Delilah binds Samson with seven green cords, Delilah binds Samson with new ropes, Delilah and the seven locks of Samson’s head on the loom, Samson tells Delilah all his heart, After the seven locks of his head are shaved, the Philistines lay hold on Samson and bring him down to Gaza, The lords of the Philistines offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, Samson takes hold of the two middle pillars and bows himself, and the house falls, Samson’s brothers and all the house of his father bury him in the burial site of Manoah his father
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The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”
Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.
But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.
Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.
Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.
Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”
The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”
Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”
Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”
She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric.
She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had departed from him.
The lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;
and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean on them.”
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
Samson called to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets—
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Samson (person-samson) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/samson Current wording: Judges 13:24 names him: “The woman bore a son and named him Samson.” At 13:24–25 the child grows, the LORD blesses him, and the LORD’s Spirit begins to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. In chapter 14 he tells his father and his mother to get him as his wife a woman he saw in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines; the LORD’s Spirit comes mightily on him and he tears a young lion; and at the feast he tells his thirty companions a riddle: “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” He goes down to Ashkelon and strikes thirty men of them. In chapter 15 he burns the standing grain of the Philistines with three hundred foxes and torches; he lives in the cave in Etam’s rock, and three thousand men of Judah bind him; at Lehi he strikes a thousand men with a fresh jawbone of a donkey; and when he is very thirsty, God splits the hollow place that is in Lehi, and he drinks and revives. 15:20 says he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines. At 16:1–3 he carries the doors of the gate of Gaza, with the two posts, bar and all, up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron. At 16:4–21 he loves Delilah, a woman in the valley of Sorek, and tells her all his heart: “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb.” The seven locks of his head are shaved off and his strength goes from him, and the Philistines put out his eyes and bring him down to Gaza, and he grinds at the mill in the prison. At 16:23–30 the lords of the Philistines gather to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and Samson is called out of the prison and set between the pillars; he takes hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rests and says, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bows himself with all his might, and the house falls; the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life. At 16:31 his brothers and all the house of his father bury him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father, and the verse says he judged Israel twenty years. Cited evidence: HEB 11:32–40, engwebp / JDG 13:24–25, engwebp / JDG 14:1–4, engwebp / JDG 14:5–9, engwebp / JDG 14:10–14, engwebp / JDG 14:15–18, engwebp / JDG 14:19–20, engwebp / JDG 15:1–3, engwebp (and 15 more of 23) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.