“His brothers and all his father’s family came down, took him, brought him up and buried him between Tzor‘ah and Eshta’ol, in the tomb of his father Manoach. He had judged Israel twenty years.”-Judges 16:31 So God granted Samson his final wish… In his last act, he was able to take revenge on the Philistines […]

“Then, crying, ‘Let me die with the P’lishtim!’ he pushed with all his might; and the building collapsed on the chiefs and on all the people inside. So he killed more at his death than he had killed during his life.”-Judges 16:30 The Philistine festival was now in full swing. The people were eating, laughing […]

“The chiefs of the P’lishtim assembled to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. As they celebrated they sang, ‘Our god has handed over to us our enemy Shimshon.’” -Judges 16:23 The chief god of the Philistines was called Dagon (sometimes spelled “Dagan”). This deity is normally pictured as a half-man, half-fish type of […]

“However, after the hair on his head had been cut off, it began growing back again.”-Judges 16:22 Samson has fallen from heaven into hell. Here was a man who held the glorious position of being one of but a handful of Judges over Israel. A man who was feared and revered by both friend and […]

Samson was born for the purpose of becoming a thorn in the flesh of the Philistines. That meant he would be in constant and close contact with them. But it did not mean he was to become as one of them. The Philistines were his enemy, not his close buddies… Even if some degree of […]