Sermon Tone Analysis

What do you think Samson looked like?

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.

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.

Because of what Samson had done there was no chance for 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

Look at what her father tells him.

A gave her to someone else.

Take her sister, shes younger and more beautiful.

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.

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

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.”

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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

AMP: Unsparingly.

Samson’s gets his pay back.