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, […]

“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 […]