| Hebrews
3:13 (ESV) 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called
“today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Judges
13:2-3 (ESV) 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites,
whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children. 3 And the
angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are
barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
Judges 13:4-5 (ESV) 4 Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink,
and eat nothing unclean, 5 for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No
razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from
the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
Judges 14:5-6 (ESV) 5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to
Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion
came toward him roaring. 6 Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and
although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears
a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges 14:19 (ESV) 19 And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he went
down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil
and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went
back to his father’s house. Judges 15:4-8 (ESV) 4 So Samson went and caught
300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch
between each pair of tails. 5 And when he had set fire to the torches, he let
the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the
stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards. 6 Then
the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the
son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his
companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with
fire. 7 And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be
avenged on you, and after that I will quit.” 8 And he struck them hip and
thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock
of Etam. Judges 15:14-17 (ESV) 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came
shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the
ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his
bonds melted off his hands. 15 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and
put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men. 16 And Samson
said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a
donkey have I struck down a thousand men.” 17 As soon as he had finished
speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was
called Ramath-lehi. Judges 16:1-3 (ESV) 1 Samson went to Gaza, and there he
saw a prostitute, and he went in to her. 2 The Gazites were told, “Samson has
come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night
at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till
the light of the morning; then we will kill him.” 3 But Samson lay till
midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of
the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on
his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of
Hebron. Judges 16:4-20 (ESV) 4 After this he loved a woman in the Valley of
Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up to
her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and
by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And
we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver. .” 6 So Delilah said to Samson,
“Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound,
that one could subdue you.” |
