Archives for July 2022

“After this, he fell in love with a woman who lived in the Sorek Valley, whose name was D’lilah.”-Judges 16:4 So we’re told that Samson fell head over heels for a woman named Delilah who lived in an area called the Sorek Valley. Interestingly, this place wasn’t far from the village of Timnah where Samson’s […]

“After this, he fell in love with a woman who lived in the Sorek Valley, whose name was D’lilah.”-Judges 16:4 It’s interesting that without exception every recorded event about Samson has to do with this love/hate relationship with the gentile world. He loved gentile women (Philistines) but he hated the gentiles (Philistines) as a whole.  It kind […]

We’re about to dive into one of the most famous stories in all of Scripture. I’m talking about Samson’s love affair with Delilah and how it led to his destruction. There’s a ton of spiritual lessons to be extracted from this story and I doubt I’ll even scratch the surface of the theological gold to […]

Samson is often viewed as an anomaly. For my non-native English speaking readers out there, “anomaly” means… …“something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected”. And that’s exactly what Samson was… Especially when compared to the other judges. However, there’s one way in which Samson was very much like us… But I think […]

“However, Shimshon stayed in bed until midnight; then he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two posts as well, pulled them up, bar and all, hoisted them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill overlooking Hevron.”-Judges 16:3 When we last left off, […]