Samson 6
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What do you think Samson looked like?
5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see where his great strength lies and how we may overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him. Then we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”
Judges
If he would have looked a strong man would they have asked where did his strength come from?
So it seems that he looked like just a normal man. This would show the power of God.
Samson was not a man of good character. But God still used him.
UPDATE: The last time. Samson had given a riddle, the men (philistines) made threat to Samson’s wife and her family. (Not Delilah)
When they guess the riddle, Samson kills 30 men to cover his bet, then leaves. His wifes father gives he to someone else.
1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
1 But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter.
Samson returns to his wife, he had left in anger. Now he returns must likely not hearing that she had been given to someone else.
1. in the time of wheat harvest—that is, about the end of our April, or the beginning of our May. The shocks of grain were then gathered into heaps, and lying on the field or on the threshing-floors. It was the dry season.
Samson visited his wife with a kid (goat)—It is usual for a visitor in the East to carry some present; in this case, it might be not only as a token of civility, but of reconciliation.
Samson visited his wife with a kid (goat)—It is usual for a visitor in the East to carry some present; in this case, it might be not only as a token of civility, but of reconciliation.
Samson visited his wife with a kid—It is usual for a visitor in the East to carry some present; in this case, it might be not only as a token of civility, but of reconciliation.
Bringing the gift of a kid indicated that Samson expected he would be welcomed when he returned to Timnath. After all, he could reason, he was not the offender but the offended; and as the offended he was coming back to forgive the past and to commence taking up married life with his wife
Bringing the gift of a kid indicated that Samson expected he would be welcomed when he returned to Timnath. After all, he could reason, he was not the offender but the offended; and as the offended he was coming back to forgive the past and to commence taking up married life with his wife
He wants to take his wife into the her room. But her father would not allow this to happen.
2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
2 Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead.”
Because of what Samson had done there was no chance for reconciliation.
Samson: The Weak Strong Man 1. The Expectation of the Reception
Bringing the gift of a kid indicated that Samson expected he would be welcomed when he returned to Timnath. After all, he could reason, he was not the offender but the offended; and as the offended he was coming back to forgive the past and to commence taking up married life with his wife
Look at what her father tells him. A gave her to someone else.
Take her sister, shes younger and more beautiful.
3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
3 Samson then said to them, “This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm.”
And Samson said concerning them
His wife's father, and other relations, and the citizens of Timnath; this, which is what follows, he said either within himself respecting them, or he said it to them openly and publicly before them all.
now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a
though Samson did not mean to act, nor did he act in the following instances as a private person taking private revenge, but as a public person, and judge of Israel; and took occasion, from the private injuries done him, to avenge the public ones of the children of Israel upon the Philistines; and they might thank themselves for giving the opportunity, which they could not justly condemn him for taking.
This time Samson says he will be blameless.
Saying what he did the first time he had no reason for, but time he felt he did.
Samson for was a man you didn’t to cross.
He just kept digging himself deeper.
4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails.
5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
5 When he had set fire to the torches, he released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible Chapter 15
4, 5. went and caught three hundred foxes—rather, “jackals”; an animal between a wolf and a fox, which, unlike our fox, a solitary creature, prowls in large packs or herds and abounds in the mountains of Palestine. The collection of so great a number would require both time and assistance.
took firebrands—torches or matches which would burn slowly, retaining the fire, and blaze fiercely when blown by the wind. He put two jackals together, tail by tail, and fastened tightly a fire match between them. At nightfall he lighted the firebrand and sent each pair successively down from the hills, into the “Shefala,” or plain of Philistia, lying on the borders of Dan and Judah, a rich and extensive corn district. The pain caused by the fire would make the animals toss about to a wide extent, kindling one great conflagration. But no one could render assistance to his neighbor: the devastation was so general, the panic would be so great
4, 5. went and caught three hundred foxes—rather, “jackals”; an animal between a wolf and a fox, which, unlike our fox, a solitary creature, prowls in large packs or herds and abounds in the mountains of Palestine. The collection of so great a number would require both time and assistance.
took firebrands—torches or matches which would burn slowly, retaining the fire, and blaze fiercely when blown by the wind. He put two jackals together, tail by tail, and fastened tightly a fire match between them. At nightfall he lighted the firebrand and sent each pair successively down from the hills, into the “Shefala,” or plain of Philistia, lying on the borders of Dan and Judah, a rich and extensive corn district. The pain caused by the fire would make the animals toss about to a wide extent, kindling one great conflagration. But no one could render assistance to his neighbor: the devastation was so general, the panic would be so great
Judg
6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
6 Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
The action they took against him and the former wife of Samson was brutal. They burned them with fire. Keil said, “Probably by burning his house down to the ground, with its occupants within it.”
7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
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7 Samson said to them, “Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit.”
Samson was the one who started it all with the riddle that couldn’t be solved.
Samson says, since you did this, I’, going to get some pay back, but then I’ll quit.
Judges 15
8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
8 He struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
AMP: Unsparingly.
Samson’s gets his pay back.