Sermon Tone Analysis

Judges 14:10

Samson had seen, and he wanted.

He wanted a wife of the Philistines.

Israels enemy.

He was, “Looking for love in all wrong places”

a.

It is now time for the wedding feast.

These feast would last for a week.

The women would be at one place and the men at a different place.

(Wine banquet) Samson could not drink wine.

b.

VS 11 “They wold be friends of the bribe, this was in her home town.

Judges 14:12-

1.

The Place

As we have already noted, the riddle was propounded at the wedding feast of Samson and his bride.

Here we will note the tradition of the feast, the typology of the feast, and the temptation in the feast where the riddle was given.

Samson: The Weak Strong Man 1.

The Place

1.

The Place

As we have already noted, the riddle was propounded at the wedding feast of Samson and his bride.

Here we will note the tradition of the feast, the typology of the feast, and the temptation in the feast where the riddle was given.

3. The Particulars

The particulars of the riddle will really disclose the corruption of Samson in propounding it.

The particulars will indicate a guiltless attitude, a gambling arrangement, and a greedy action.

Samson: The Weak Strong Man 3. The Particulars

3. The Particulars

The particulars of the riddle will really disclose the corruption of Samson in propounding it.

The particulars will indicate a guiltless attitude, a gambling arrangement, and a greedy action.

12.

I will now put forth a riddle—Riddles are a favorite Oriental amusement at festive entertainments of this nature, and rewards are offered to those who give the solution.

Samson’s riddle related to honey in the lion’s carcass.

The prize he offered was thirty sindinim, or shirts, and thirty changes of garments, probably woolen.

Three days were passed in vain attempts to unravel the enigma.

The festive week was fast drawing to a close when they secretly enlisted the services of the newly married wife, who having got the secret, revealed it to her friends.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible Chapter 14

1. will now put forth a riddle—Riddles are a favorite amusement at festive entertainments of this nature, and rewards are offered to those who give the solution.

a. Samson’s riddle related to honey in the lion’s carcass.

The prize he offered was thirty sindinim, or shirts, and thirty changes of garments, probably woolen.

b.Three days were passed in vain attempts to unravel the enigma.

The festive week was fast drawing to a close when they secretly enlisted the services of the newly married wife, who having got the secret, revealed it to her friends.

12.

I will now put forth a riddle—Riddles are a favorite Oriental amusement at festive entertainments of this nature, and rewards are offered to those who give the solution.

Samson’s riddle related to honey in the lion’s carcass.

The prize he offered was thirty sindinim, or shirts, and thirty changes of garments, probably woolen.

Three days were passed in vain attempts to unravel the enigma.

The festive week was fast drawing to a close when they secretly enlisted the services of the newly married wife, who having got the secret, revealed it to her friends.

(vv.

12, 13).

Plain and simple the stipulations were a form of gambling.

Samson, in propounding the riddle, bet thirty suits of clothing that his Philistine guests could not solve it; they, in accepting the proposition, bet likewise that they could solve the riddle

Butler, J. G. (1992).

Samson: the weak strong man (Vol.

Number Six, p. 77).

Clinton, IA: LBC Publications.

The stakes were high.

The clothing was not crude or cheap.

The “sheets” were not bed sheets as is the normal use of the word today, but they were soft linen undergarments which were “worn next [to] the skin” (Hervey).

The “changes of garments” were “costly dresses, that were frequently changed” (Keil).

They were “the outward garment of the Orientalists, which was part of the wealth of the rich and the great, and was, and is to the present day, one of the most frequent presents on all state occasions” (Hervey).

But the stakes being high is not what made it evil.

Gambling is gambling whether you wager your life savings or whether you play golf for a dollar a hole.

And it will not lead to improved character.

Rather, it will destroy character and play havoc with all that is good in life, which we will see clearly through this story.

The stakes were high.

The clothing was not crude or cheap.

The “sheets” were not bed sheets as is the normal use of the word today, but they were soft linen undergarments which were “worn next [to] the skin”

a.

The “changes of garments” were “costly dresses, that were frequently changed” ( They were “the outward garment of the Orientalists, which was part of the wealth of the rich and the great, and was, and is to the present day, one of the most frequent presents on all state occasions”

b.

But the stakes being high is not what made it evil.

Gambling is gambling whether you wager your life savings or whether you play golf for a dollar a hole.

And it will not lead to improved character.

Rather, it will destroy character and play havoc with all that is good in life, which we will see clearly through this story.

A greedy action.

Samson wanted thirty linen undergarments and thirty changes of raiment.

Quite a wardrobe!

And most unnecessary, too!

Hence, the desire for such an extensive and expensive wardrobe was great evidence of the presence of greed in Samson’s heart.

a.Greed is an excessive desire for something, and that excessive desire will always lead to evil ways to obtain what is desired.

In Samson’s case, he resorted to the evil of a wager, as we noted above, to appease his greed.

Gambling is always the product of greed—no matter if it is legalized by government legislation or not.

Those who gamble do so because they are filled with greed, and those who promote gambling do so for the same reason.

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Judges 14:

In order to get what they want, they make a threat against her family.

She play the crying game to get what she wants.

a. Things are turning sour for Samson.

He marries a Philistine woman, he made a wager with the Philistine men.

His actions would to trouble.

b.

Look what she asks him, “Do you hate me” He had given a riddle but didn’t give her the answer.

c.

His response, I didn’t even tell my parents.

Why should I tell you?

1.She didn;t give up, witch made him give in.

a.

He tells her, she tells them.

Samson knew where they had gotten the answer from.

a.

The statement he makes seems like something strange to say.

and he said unto them, if ye had not ploughed with my heifer;

meaning his wife, whom he compares to an heifer, young, wanton, and unaccustomed to the yoke F16; and by "ploughing" with her, he alludes to such creatures being employed therein, making use of her to get the secret out of him, and then plying her closely to obtain it from her; and this diligent application and search of theirs, by this means to inform themselves, was like ploughing up ground; they got a discovery of that which before lay hid, and without which they could never have had the knowledge of, as he adds:

In other words, they took advantage of her.

They doesn’t sit well with Samson.