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l suppose any woman
would love him--
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wim, intelligent,
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loving.
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Most of all, strong.
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Tremendous strength,
and very clever.
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l would say too clever.
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He had no way of knowing
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what it meant to be...
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a regular person.
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He was a brave man,
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a strong man, a very strong man.
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He gave us the slip
for a long time,
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but we have him now.
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As It Was
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Samson
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Judges 13:1 - 16:31
1150 B.C. - Zorah
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Again, the Israelites did evil again
in the eyes of the LORD,
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so the LORD delivered them
into the hands
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of the Philistines
for forty years.
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Judges 13:1
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lt all started when my wife,
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who's barren...
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and l tried for many years
to get pregnant.
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No go.
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We tried all the popular herbs
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and remedies--
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still nothing.
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Manoah
Samson's Father
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Then one day she comes to me
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and says she saw an angel.
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An angel of God.
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He told her she'd give birth
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in nine months
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to a boy
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who would be a Nazirite--
set apart to God from birth.
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He's a fellow Nazirite like me.
We can't drink wine
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or eat anything unclean,
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and we can't cut our hair.
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Matania
A Hebrew Nazirite
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l couldn't believe it--
nine months later,
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Samson was born.
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From the moment he was born
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everyone realized he was special.
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He wasn't a regular person.
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You want to know
how strong he really was?
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As a boy he would take
much bigger logs than this
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and whack-- cut them in half
with one blow of the axe.
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Sure we had heard of him,
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this kid with his abnormal strength.
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Talon
Philistine Commander
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Samson became this hero.
His reputation spread
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from the Red Sea
to the Jordan River.
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Why would we care at first?
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Just rumors, you know.
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But we found the man
was very unique.
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Samson went down to Timnah
and saw there a young Philistine woman.
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Samson went down to Timnah
and saw there a young Philistine woman.
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Judges 14:1
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Zilpa
Samson's first wife.
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l remember the first time.
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l was in the fields lying in the sun.
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l often go there.
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lt's nice and quiet.
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So l'm lying there, basking,
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when l feel this shadow
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blocking the sun.
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l open my eyes,
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and l see this big man
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with the sun behind him
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outlining his full hair
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and his broad shoulders.
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lt looked like the light was coming
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from within him,
like he was full of light.
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When he returned,
he said to his father and mother,
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''l have seen
a Philistine woman in Timnah;
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now get her for me
as my wife.''
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Judges 14:2
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My wife and l looked at each other
then we asked him,
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''So what's wrong
with a nice Jewish girl?''
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if you don't mind telling us?
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He said he knew the score
with our girls;
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he'd spent a lot of time with them.
He just wanted this one
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Philistine girl, Zilpa.
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We were invited to the wedding,
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because my wife knew Zilpa.
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l came bearing no prejudice,
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even though he was a Hebrew.
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l brought two plump sheep.
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A little gift.
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l didn't want to show off.
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On the first day of their wedding,
in the middle of the festivities,
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On the first day of their wedding,
in the middle of the festivities,
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Samson, sober as a judge--
he never drank wine--
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hushed everyone. As a joke,
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he proposed a bet.
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l'll bet you 30 linen garments
you can't solve this riddle.
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Now let's get one thing straight:
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l have nothing against riddles,
just as long as l know the answer.
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''Out of the eater-- something to eat,
out of the strong-- something sweet.''
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Silence. Not a word.
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They were very keen
on solving the riddle,
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but they couldn't get it.
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After two days,
it really started bugging them.
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We had no alternative but to go
to the bride and set her straight--
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''Look, we're not going
to come off looking like clowns.''
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We told her,
''Give us the answer.''
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l had no idea. l mean, come on,
it was my wedding,
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there was a feast,
people were partying.
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Who cares about a silly riddle?
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l really couldn't be bothered.
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So we really read her the riot act:
''How dare you invite guests
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to your wedding
just to humiliate them?!''
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What did she reckon
people would think of us
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when they found out
this Hebrew man
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made fools of us,
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her own blood?
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Some things are too important
to just let go of.
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So l told her,
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''Give us the answer
or we will kill you.''
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...they said to Samson's wife,
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''Coax your husband
into explaining the riddle for us,
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or we will burn you
and your father's household to death.''
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Judges 14:15
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Samson told me.
He gave me the answer.
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And l told the Philistine commander.
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l didn't think it was such a big deal.
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Here's the story:
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My son came across a lion
on the road,
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a fierce male.
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lt pounced on him.
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He knocked the lion out
with two blows;
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then he opened the lion's jaws
and tore the beast in two.
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He left the carcass lying in the field.
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Sometime later,
when he passed through there again,
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he saw a hive of bees
inside the lion's carcass.
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That was the answer.
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Samson stood there and laughed,
''So have you got my answer?''
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l told him, ''Mr. Groom!
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Let's see.
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What could be
sweeter than honey?
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And what could be
stronger than a lion?''
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l never saw Samson so mad.
He immediately looked at me,
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and l just cringed and prayed
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that wind would blow me away.
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...Samson said to them,
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''lf you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have solved my riddle.''
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Judges 14:18
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lt had to be me,
because no one else knew.
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He was deeply offended.
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So he decided to teach them a lesson.
He went over to Ashkelon.
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30 men!
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He butchered 30 men,
stripped them of their clothes,
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and he said,
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''There, l made good on my word.''
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Well, that was
our first real confrontation.
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That was God speaking.
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As a Nazirite, l believe
God was working through Samson,
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telling us it was time
for the revolution.
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He was so upset
because of this thing,
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even after killing those 30 men
and taking their clothes.
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He couldn't stay there.
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So he came back home for a while.
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When Samson left,
my father decided to marry me off.
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l'm young, no kids.
It was only fitting.
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l resisted at first,
but then l said okay,
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because Samson obviously
wasn't coming back.
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Well, one fine day,
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after l had remarried
and moved on,
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l suddenly heard Samson
calling me.
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l thought, ''Can this be real?''
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l rushed to the window,
and there he was.
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His father-in-law came out
and told him,
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''Listen, you left
for a few months. True?
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So l gave your wife to another man.''
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My father tried to appease him.
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He told him
he could marry my sister.
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Zilpa was very prem.
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Her sister was...
well, not so prem.
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Samson wasn't buying it.
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So he took 300 foxes--
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not three, not 30, but 300 foxes--
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he attached them together
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and then torched their tails.
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The foxes ran like crazy through
the Philistine's wheat fields
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just before harvest.
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l'm pleased to say,
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it was Destruction with a capital D.
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The fields were ablaze.
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He caused a tremendous fire
in our granary--
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our entire crop of wheat.
The financial damage was devastating.
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He punished them
for taking his wife.
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He took away their sustenance
for that season
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and the one after that.
The fire decimated everything.
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Again, God, using his messenger
on earth, Samson,
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proved that He was the only God,
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which no one
could ever question.
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You could smell
the scorched earth everywhere.
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lt was all my fault.
He did this because of me.
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Because of Samson's love for me,
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an entire nation has me to blame
for its suffering.
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l know that this is it.
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The Philistine people
will never forgive me.
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Never.
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So much suffering.
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...So the Philistines went up
and burned her and her father to death.
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Samson said to them,
''Since you've acted like this,
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l won't stop until l g:,t my
revenge on you.
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Judges 15:6-7
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Samson needed
to get out of there fast,
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which he did.
But he kept drawing them after him.
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We received intelligence
that he was hiding out at Lehi.
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That was my first encounter
with Samson.
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All l can say is that it was amazing.
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(Talon - Philistine Commander)
We came to Judea and we told them,
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''People, dear people,
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give us Samson,
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or there will be serious trouble.
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He has to answer for his actions.''
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(Manoah - Samson's Father)
The people came to Samson
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and said they had no choice.
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They would be destroyed
if they didn't deliver him
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to the Philistines.
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(Matania - A Hebrew Nazirite)
Along with all the might and strength,
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you could see something very caring
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and peaceful in the man.
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The Philistines had a huge force
waiting for him!
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He just sat there smiling.
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His smile made me feel safe.
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They said to him,
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''We've come to tie you up
and hand you over to the Philistines.''
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Samson said, ''Swear to me
that you won't kill me yourselves.''
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Judges 15:12
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Samson understood
the people's situation.
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He told them he would surrender
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if they promised
not to harm him themselves.
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So they tied him up
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and delivered him tethered,
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like this!
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l was certain
it would all be over soon,
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we'd make him answer
for his deeds.
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Then suddenly...
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...he breaks free of the ropes...
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...like they were party decorations!
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And he grabbed an old jawbone
of an ass that was lying there...
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...just a piece of bone...
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...and he started mowing my men down!
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Everyone there.
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lt must have been 1,OOO men.
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One single man struck them all down,
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bashed in their skulls,
broke their limbs--
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1,OOO strong!
l was afraid for my own life!
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That was God,
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there inside this huge human body.
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You bet l was scared.
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This man had supernatural strength!
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And when the dust settled,
poof-- he was gone.
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l was so excited
l couldn't sleep for three nights.
258
00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:03,900
l just had to go back
to the scene of the battle.
259
00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:11,600
This is the jawbone.
260
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This is what he used,
261
00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,800
and actually,
262
00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,700
l'm the first man to touch this thing
263
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after Samson used it.
264
00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,600
This is the real deal.
265
00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:36,500
He held it in his hands.
266
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l have no idea how he did it.
267
00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:42,500
l got to thinking.
268
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l knew from my own experience
that he could strike
269
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1,OOO men with a small jawbone.
270
00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:52,700
What if he formed an army?
271
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lt would be...
272
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a bloody disaster.
273
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So l figure,
274
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''Fine. We have time. We'll wait.''
275
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Samson led Israel for twenty years
in the days of the Philistines.
276
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Judges 15:2O
277
00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:17,100
We were still under Philistine rule,
278
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We were still under Philistine rule,
279
00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:22,900
but they didn't mess with us.
280
00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:25,200
After 20 years,
281
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his urges--
282
00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:30,900
well, l'll put it this way:
283
00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,200
he had, during those 20 years,
284
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a special lady friend in Gaza.
285
00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:41,200
He was seeing a Philistine woman.
286
00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,000
She was publicly known as a prostitute.
287
00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:47,900
We set up an ambush at the city gates
288
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because we knew
that was his only way out.
289
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The gate was shut.
290
00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,700
And you know
what a city gate is, right?
291
00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,300
lt's heavy, cast-iron,
292
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stone and marble,
293
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reinforced with steel. It's colossal.
294
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The man came and lifted the thing
like it was a paperweight.
295
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He just grabbed it
with his own two hands...
296
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...he yanked it up,
ripped the lock free...
297
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...hoisted up the gates...
298
00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,200
...and carried the gates on his back
299
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up the hill.
300
00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,900
And he calmly left.
301
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,300
l could not believe my eyes,
302
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,700
and they've seen
a thing or two in my lifetime!
303
00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:37,800
Never anything like this.
l know you don't believe it.
304
00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:46,300
Some time later he fell in love
with a woman in the Valley of Sorek
305
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whose name was Delilah
306
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Judges 16:4
307
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Delilah
308
00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:05,200
l went with my friends
309
00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:10,200
to bathe in the pond.
310
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,000
Samson was there.
311
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He looked like...
312
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he had been on the road
313
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for a long time,
314
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as though he'd been through quite a lot.
315
00:20:34,700 --> 00:20:38,400
He was washing his face and hair.
316
00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:45,400
We looked at one another,
317
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and then he walked up to me.
318
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He introduced himself as Samson,
319
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as if l didn't know who he was.
320
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,500
He fell in love again,
321
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with a breathtaking woman,
so they tell me.
322
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Her name-- Delilah.
323
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Name one man
who wasn't in love with Delilah.
324
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We all were.
A beautiful, charming single woman.
325
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Very independent.
326
00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:23,200
She was truly unique.
327
00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:26,900
We approached her
and asked her to work for us
328
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,600
and to help us capture him.
329
00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:35,300
We all knew that Samson
had a very distinct weakness--
330
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women were the chink in his armor.
331
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,100
The Philistines decided to exploit that.
332
00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:47,900
We told her we knew of their liaison,
333
00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:52,300
so we asked her to find out
334
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,500
the secret of his strength.
335
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,700
They were quite adamant about it.
336
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,600
''Name your price.''
337
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,000
l asked for 10,OOO shekels.
338
00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:12,200
''lf you deliver the information-- done.''
339
00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:14,800
l know l could have gone for more.
340
00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:17,400
That was enough money
341
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,600
for her to buy herself anything.
342
00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:25,700
l could spend the rest of my days
without a care, in peace.
343
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,200
l'd have it made.
344
00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,300
So Delilah said to Samson,
345
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,600
''Tell me the secret
of your great strength
346
00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:42,100
and how you can be tied up
and subdued.''
347
00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:46,300
Judges 16:6
348
00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:50,900
He was lying beside me...
349
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,600
and l asked him
350
00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:03,300
how could such a man's man,
351
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,400
so strong and desirable,
352
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:11,200
have a secret
he couldn't tell anyone?
353
00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:16,200
And how could l discover that secret?
354
00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:20,900
How could l diminish his strength?
355
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,800
Finally, he told me
356
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,000
that if l tied him up
357
00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:32,400
with seven wet cords,
he would lose his strength.
358
00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:34,400
l made the arrangements.
359
00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:37,000
l myself made sure
360
00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:40,600
the cords were moist,
361
00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:43,700
and we're talking about ropes
that l personally had made
362
00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:45,900
out of the roots of the best trees!
363
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,000
So she decided to try it out.
364
00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:53,400
l tied him up,
365
00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:56,700
and after he was bound really tightly,
366
00:23:56,700 --> 00:23:59,000
l called,
367
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,300
''Samson, the Philistines
are upon you!''
368
00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:05,500
and in a flash he tore free of the ropes
369
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,000
like they were cobwebs.
370
00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:10,100
Naturally, everyone
was scared to death
371
00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:13,400
and fled the house.
372
00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:16,100
So again she begged him
to tell her the truth.
373
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,200
You know, ''lf you love me,
why won't you tell me
374
00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:22,800
the secret of your strength?''
375
00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:26,300
l told him l wanted to know
376
00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:28,700
because l loved and trusted him,
377
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,800
and that he was supposed
to love me and trust me back.
378
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,500
So he told me if l tied him up
with new ropes
379
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,000
that had never been used,
then he would be weak.
380
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,200
So again she calls to him,
''Samson, the Philistines are upon you!''
381
00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:48,400
and in a flash
he tore free of those ropes too.
382
00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:51,900
That made me mad.
383
00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:56,100
After being lied to
for the second time,
384
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,400
l really took offense.
385
00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,400
lt now became a challenge.
386
00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:07,300
l asked him,
''ls this all our love means to you?''
387
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,200
She used all her feminine charm.
388
00:25:13,700 --> 00:25:19,400
He told her if she tied his hair
into seven braids,
389
00:25:19,500 --> 00:25:24,900
and then pinned them to the wall,
390
00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:26,800
that would do it.
391
00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:30,800
Which also turned out to be wrong.
392
00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:33,500
l was becoming desperate.
393
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:39,100
With such nagging
she prodded him
394
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,700
day after day
until he was tired to death.
395
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,300
Judges 16:16
396
00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:51,200
l wanted him to love me
397
00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:54,000
and show me he really cared.
398
00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:02,800
And for the first time,
he swore to tell me the truth.
399
00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:09,100
''No razor has ever been used
on my head,'' he said,
400
00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:15,100
''because l have been a Nazirite set apart to
God since birth...''
401
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,800
Judges 16:17
402
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,000
''lf you cut my hair,
403
00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:25,500
l will lose my strength.''
404
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,000
l said to myself, ''How ironic!
405
00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:32,800
All those years
406
00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:36,900
the answer to the riddle
was right there before my eyes!''
407
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,200
On the fourth night,
408
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,600
l put him to bed after a good meal.
409
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:55,200
l knew those were our last
410
00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:59,000
few moments together.
411
00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:01,200
He laid his head on my lap,
412
00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:04,400
and it was my last chance
to take in his special features
413
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:06,700
and the sweet expression
on his face.
414
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:06,800
Having put him to sleep
on her lap,
415
00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:14,700
Having put him to sleep
on her lap,
416
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:22,200
she called a man to shave off
the seven braids of his hair...
417
00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:27,900
Judges 16:19
418
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,100
And he looked
just like a baby in his sleep,
419
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,000
tender and vulnerable.
420
00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:50,300
l walk into the room and l see him
421
00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:53,200
with his head shaved.
422
00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:55,400
l didn't recognize him at first.
423
00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:57,700
He looked so scrawny, so skinny.
424
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,800
There are two common soldiers
holding him,
425
00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:04,900
and he's frightened.
He knows it's over!
426
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,900
Before they gouged out his eyes...
427
00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:22,700
he said--
428
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,600
he told me he still loved me.
429
00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:40,200
l gouged out his eyes,
430
00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:44,700
l sent him to jail,
431
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,300
and l made him
the wheat grinder of the prison.
432
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,700
And so the circle was completed:
433
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,700
The same wheat he deprived us of
434
00:28:56,700 --> 00:29:01,100
he will now grind in prison,
435
00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:03,400
for all to see.
436
00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:08,100
Then the Philistines seized him,
437
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,900
gouged out his eyes,
438
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,700
they set him to grinding
in the prison...
439
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,900
Judges 16:21
440
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:22,000
l think he wanted to find out
441
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,700
what he was worth without his hair,
442
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:31,100
without the strength
he had been given.
443
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,300
And that was his downfall.
444
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,000
When God gives you something,
445
00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:39,200
you just accept it.
446
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:47,800
But the hair on his head began
to grow again
447
00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:51,300
after it had been shaved...
448
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,800
Judges 16:22
449
00:29:54,900 --> 00:30:00,300
While they were in high spirits,
they shouted,
450
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:04,900
''Bring out Samson to entertain us.''
451
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:10,000
...Now the temple was crowded
with men and women;
452
00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:13,600
all the rulers of the Philistines
were there...
453
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,000
Judges 16:25-27
454
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:23,500
Then Samson prayed to the LORD,
455
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:28,400
''...remember me. O God,
456
00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:31,400
please strengthen me
just once more...
457
00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:34,400
Judges 16:28
458
00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:39,100
Samson said,
''Let me die with the Philistines!''
459
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,100
Then he pushed with all his might,
460
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:48,900
and down came the temple on the rulers
and all the people in it.
461
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,900
Thus he killed many more
when he died than while he lived.
462
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,100
Judges 16:3O
463
00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:57,300
After Manoah's death,
464
00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:01,300
he was buried alongside Samson
between Zira'a and Eshtaol.
465
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:08,500
Talon miraculously survived
466
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:13,500
and continued to wage
the Philistine wars.
467
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:18,000
Matania continued
his life of religious seclusion,
468
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:25,800
and chronicled the tales of Samson.
469
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:31,800
Delilah died along
with the thousands of Philistines
470
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:46,700
who witnessed
Samson's degradation.
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