Samson

Bible Reference: Judges 13- 16

Samson served as a judge for twenty years and delivered the Israelites who were suffering at the hands of the Philistines for the previous forty years.
His birth was foretold to his parents Manoah and Zorah of the tribe of Dan by an angel that said he would be set apart as a Nazirite, which was a higher calling to abstain from sin.
His first act in the Bible was to violate his vow by marrying a Philistine woman.
He showed his exceptional strength when he killed a lion with his bare hands, but later, he violated his Nazarite vow again by touching the dead carcass of the lion.
Despite turning away from his vow, God fulfilled his purpose of deliverance, and he killed thirty Philistines in Ashkelon, burning their fields and orchards, and avenging his wife and father-in-law.
To satisfy the angry Philistines, the Jewish people tied Samson up to turn him over to the Philistines. When he was delivered, he split the ropes and slaughtered 1,000 of them.
Samson’s downfall escalated when he fell in love with Delilah, a Philistine woman who eventually won his trust and got him to share the secret of his strength.
Delilah betrayed Samson, cutting off his hair and relieving him of God’s Spirit and strength. The Philistines then took him as their prisoner and cut out his eyes.
In one final act of strength, while Samson was chained to the pillars of a temple and the Philistines mocked him, he asked God for strength, and he knocked down the temple, killing 3,000 Philistines and himself.

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