Archives for July 2022

“Shimshon went to ‘Azah, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.” -Judges 16:1 There’s something I’ve always wondered about. Why didn’t God depart from Samson when he was engaged in the unclean act of sleeping with prostitutes? Isn’t that interesting? I mean just in the last chapter about […]

Today we begin Judges Chapter 16. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James Version, click HERE. Notice how the last sentence of this chapter says Samson judged “all” Israel. That’s not really true. He didn’t judge all Israel. He only judged the areas that were oppressed by the Philistines… Which specifically were […]

“With the jawbone of a donkey I left heaps piled on heaps! With the jawbone of a donkey I killed a thousand men!” -Judges 15:16 Samson has been delivered to the Philistines. And he’s firmly tied up in ropes. But not for long. In that instant the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson and […]

“The P’lishtim went up, pitched camp in Y’hudah and attacked Lechi.  The men of Y’hudah said, ‘Why are you attacking us?’ They replied, ‘To arrest Shimshon, that’s why — to treat him the way he treated us.’”-Judges 15:9 After Samson’s indiscriminate slaughter of yet another group of innocent Philistine citizens, the Philistines realize something has […]

“Shimshon said to them, ‘I will certainly have my revenge on you for doing such a thing; but after I do, I’ll stop.’  Infuriated, he began killing them right and left; it was a massacre. Then he went down and stayed in the cave at the ‘Eitam Rock.”-Judges 15:7-8 In order to avenge the death […]