Tag: Samson
Biblical Principle #361: Samson Lost His Strength
Biblical Principles List Principle Samson lost his strength because GOD left him when he was shaved, and this led to Samson’s death. Explanation After the city gates incident, Samson came to love a Philistine woman named Delilah. Desperate to get the best of Samson, the Philistine leaders bribed Delilah to trick Samson into revealing to…
Biblical Principle #360: Samson Carried City Gates
Biblical Principles List Principle Samson once picked up the gates to a city and carried them up a hill. Explanation Scripture includes a brief story among the chronicles of Samson’s recorded actions which reads: 1 Samson went to Gaza, and he saw there a woman, a prostitute, and he entered in to her. 2 And…
Biblical Principle #359: Samson Killed 1,000 Philistines
Biblical Principles List Principle Through the strength of the Holy Spirit, Samson killed a thousand Philistines with a donkey’s jawbone because they had burned his wife and father-in-law to death. Explanation After Samson’s eventful wedding, which ended with Samson returning to his parents’ home without his wife, Samson’s father-in-law gave Samson’s wife to his friend:…
Biblical Principle #357: Samson Killed a Lion
Biblical Principles List Principle Samson killed a lion with his bare hands. Explanation From his youth, the Holy Spirit came upon Samson. 24 So the woman bore a son and called his name Samson; and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. 25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to proceed out with…
Biblical Principle #356: The Angel of the Lord Visited Samson’s Parents
Biblical Principles List Principle The Angel of the Lord visited Manoah and his wife to foretell Samson’s birth, mission, and Nazarite restrictions. Explanation Towards the end of Israel’s judges, GOD used the Canaanite nation of Philistia to persecute Israel because of Israel’s wickedness and idolatry. He allowed the Philistines to persecute Israel for forty years.…
Biblical Principle #230: The Nazirite Vow
Biblical Principles List Principle Under the Law of Moses, GOD gave guidelines for Israelites who took a Nazarite vow. Explanation We previously established that certain individuals were set apart from the assembly of Israel in a preventative manner for maintaining the purity of the whole. Similarly, certain individuals were set apart in a unique sense…
March 23 – Be Careful Who You Trust
Reading Judg. 13:1-16:31 Devotional Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of GOD, so He gave them over to be ruled by the Philistines forty years. Then GOD raised up Samson, the strong man, to oppress the Philistines in return. Samson was a Nazarite, which meant that he could not shave his head…