“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 […]

“So the P’lishtim seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to ‘Azah. There they bound him with two bronze chains and put him to work grinding grain at the mill in the prison.”-Judges 16:21 The New Testament describes a person who comes to faith in Yeshua as being “born again”. That’s really […]

So the big question that arises is… Did Samson lose his salvation when he allowed his hair to get cut? Or to be even more precise… Was he spiritually and eternally cut off from the Lord and as a result destined for what the Hebrew Bible calls the Place of Torments (what the New Testament […]