SAMSON
Thompson Chain Reference (1934)
- Separated as a Nazarite
- yet tampering with evil associations
- Spiritual at times
- yet under the power of carnal appetites
- Childish in his plans
- yet courageous in battle
- Mighty in physical strength
- yet weak in resisting temptation
- His sad end
A judge (leader, hero) of Israel
A Danite, son of Manoah; miraculous birth of; a Nazarite from his mother’ s womb; the mother forbidden to drink wine or strong drink, or to eat any ceremonially unclean thing during gestation
Desires a Philistine woman for his wife; kills a lion
His marriage feast and the riddle propounded
Kills thirty Philistines
Wife of, estranged
Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife
His great strength
Kills one-thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey
Miraculously supplied with water
Cohabits with Delilah, a prostitute; her machinations with the Philistines to overcome him
Is blinded by the Philistines and confined to hard labor in prison; pulls down the pillars of the temple, meets his death, and kills a multitude of his enemies