“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 […]

“The P’lishtim asked, ‘Who did this?’ They answered, ‘Shimshon the son-in-law of the man from Timnah, because he took Shimshon’s wife and gave her to his best man.’ Then the P’lishtim came up and burned both her and her father to death.”-Judges 15:6  Oh man, things just keep going from bad to worse between Samson […]

“So Shimshon went and caught three hundred foxes. Then he took torches, tied pairs of foxes to each other by their tails, and put a torch in the knot of every pair of tails.  Then he set the torches on fire and let the foxes loose in wheat fields of the P’lishtim. In this way […]