the story of samson

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00:01The time is somewhere between 1045 and 1000 BC.

00:05It is a dark period in Israel's history.

00:09Seven times this nation had turned from God

00:11and now found themselves under the oppressive rule of the Philistines.

00:17Not too far outside of Jerusalem, in the town of Zorah,

00:21lived a man named Manoah and his wife.

00:24They were visited by an angel that announced to them

00:27that even though Manoah's wife was sterile,

00:30they were going to have a baby boy.

00:32He instructed them that this boy would be a Nazarite from birth,

00:36set apart to God,

00:37and he would begin the deliverance of Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

00:42The major observances of the Nazarite vow,

00:45where Samson would not be permitted to drink any alcoholic beverage,

00:48eat nothing made from grapes,

00:50must never cut his hair as an outward symbol of his devotion to God,

00:54and must never go near any dead bodies.

00:57When Samson became of age,

00:59he saw a Philistine woman that he wanted to marry.

01:03His parents warned him against this union since the Philistines were the enemy,

01:08but Samson disregarded their warnings,

01:10so they set off to Timnah to get her.

01:15Along the journey, a lion came roaring toward him,

01:17but the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson in power,

01:21so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands.

01:26Sometime later, he went back to marry this woman.

01:29He returned to the spot where he killed the lion,

01:32and noticed that there was a swarm of bees and some honey in the carcass,

01:36which he scooped out and ate.

01:39Later at the wedding feast, he gave everyone this riddle,

01:42out of the eater, something to eat,

01:45out of the strong, something sweet.

01:49The guests could not answer the riddle correctly,

01:52so they asked his wife to coax them into telling her the answer.

01:56Then Samson's wife threw herself on him, sobbing,

02:00You hate me!

02:01You don't really love me!

02:03You've given my people a riddle,

02:04but you haven't even told me the answer!

02:06After nagging him for seven days,

02:10Samson gave her the answer,

02:12which she turned around and gave to her people.

02:15When they correctly answered the riddle,

02:18Samson knew what happened.

02:21He was so enraged that he killed 30 people

02:24and gave their clothes as a reward to those who answered correctly.

02:28Because of this betrayal,

02:30the father of Samson's wife didn't think he would take her back,

02:33so he gave her to Samson's friend.

02:37When Samson heard of this,

02:39he caught 300 foxes and tied torches to their tails

02:43and released them in the Philistine crops,

02:46vineyards, and olive groves, burning them.

02:49When the Philistines tried to retaliate,

02:51he single-handedly killed a thousand of them

02:53with a fresh jawbone of a donkey.

02:56When he completed this great feat,

02:58he cried out to the Lord and said,

03:00You have given your servant this great victory.

03:03Must I now die of thirst

03:05and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?

03:09Then God opened up the hollow place

03:11and water came out of it.

03:13When Samson drank,

03:15his strength was returned

03:16and he was revived.

03:18Even though Samson was a great man of strength,

03:22he was weak in moral character.

03:25One day he went to Gaza

03:26and spent the night with a Philistine prostitute.

03:29When the people of the town

03:31knew of his presence,

03:32they went to kill him.

03:34Luckily, Samson only stayed there half the night

03:37and when he awoke,

03:39he tore off the gates of the city,

03:40lifting them on his shoulders

03:42and carried them to the top of a hill.

03:45Not only did he escape death that night,

03:48but embarrassed the town by his actions.

03:51Some time later,

03:54he fell in love with another Philistine woman

03:56named Delilah.

03:58The rulers of the Philistines went to her

04:01and asked her to lure Samson

04:02into telling her the secret of his strength

04:05so they could overpower him and subdue him.

04:09They offered her a combined $750,000 for this task.

04:15Delilah accepted.

04:17She asked Samson for the secret of his strength

04:19and he repeatedly told her lies,

04:22seemingly to toy with her.

04:23He said,

04:25if he were to be tied up

04:26with seven fresh cat gut strings

04:28that have not been dried,

04:30he would become as weak as any other man.

04:33When she tested this

04:34and found it out to be false,

04:36she cried,

04:37you have made a fool of me.

04:39You lie to me.

04:41Come on,

04:42tell me now how you can be tied.

04:45Samson then said,

04:46tie me securely with new ropes

04:48that have never been used

04:49and I'll become as weak

04:50as any other man.

04:53But Samson snapped the ropes off his arm

04:55as if they were threads.

04:57Delilah exclaimed,

04:58you have been making a fool of me

05:00and lying to me.

05:01Tell me the truth.

05:03So Samson said,

05:05if you weave the seven braids of my head

05:07into the fabric on the loom

05:08and tighten it with the pin,

05:11I'll become as weak as any other man.

05:14So while he was sleeping,

05:15Delilah did just that.

05:18But when he awoke,

05:19he pulled up the pin

05:20and the loom with the fabric.

05:22Delilah yelled,

05:23how can you say I love you

05:25when you won't confide in me?

05:27This is the third time

05:29you made a fool out of me

05:30and haven't told me

05:31the secret to your strength.

05:34And with such nagging,

05:36she prodded him day after day

05:37until he was tired to death.

05:41So he told her everything.

05:43How he had never cut his hair

05:45because he was under a Nazarite vow

05:46and that his strength came from God.

05:50So when he was asleep,

05:52Delilah called in a man

05:53to shave off the seven braids of his hair

05:55and tied him up.

05:57And his strength left him.

06:01When he awoke,

06:02he thought he would be able

06:03to go out as before

06:04and shake himself free.

06:06But he did not know

06:07that the Lord had left him.

06:11The Philistines seized him,

06:13gouged his eyes out

06:14and took him down to Gaza.

06:16They bound him with bronze shackles

06:18and they sent him

06:20to grinding in the prison.

06:24Sometime after,

06:25the rulers of the Philistines

06:26assembled to offer

06:27a great sacrifice to their God,

06:30Dagon,

06:30to celebrate that their God

06:33had delivered Samson

06:34into their hands.

06:34And they brought out Samson

06:37to entertain them.

06:39While he was there in the temple,

06:40he asked someone to bring him

06:41to the pillars of the temple

06:42so that he could lean against them.

06:45The temple was crowded that day

06:46with men and women.

06:48There were about 300 people

06:50just on the roof looking on.

06:54Samson prayed to the Lord

06:55one more time.

06:58Sovereign Lord,

06:59remember me.

07:01Please God,

07:02strengthen me just once more.

07:04And let me with one blow

07:06get revenge on the Philistines

07:08from my two eyes.

07:11Then Samson reached

07:12toward the two central pillars

07:13on which the temple stood.

07:15Bracing himself against them,

07:17his right hand on the one

07:19and his left hand on the other,

07:21Samson said,

07:22Let me die with the Philistines.

07:25Then he pushed with all of his might

07:27and down came the temple

07:28on the rulers

07:29and all the people in it.

07:31And he killed many more

07:33when he died

07:34than when he lived.

07:38Samson led Israel for 20 years.

07:41Although he was a man

07:42of outward strength,

07:44he was weak

07:45in his moral character,

07:46which ultimately led

07:48to his death.

07:50Even though he departed

07:51from God's best plan

07:52for his life,

07:54God did use him

07:55to begin the deliverance

07:56of Israel

07:57from the Philistines

07:58just as he promised.

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