Tag: Judges

Prior to the rule of any Israelite king—when everyone was, “doing what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6)—was born Samson. Even before the womb God had ordained him to be a judge and a leader among his people and to begin delivering the Israelites from the hands of

Of the three known women romantically involved with Samson, only one is named—Delilah. This is an important clue since the naming of characters, “serves to emphasize their roles in a narrative.”[1] Indeed, though Samson had been on the Philistine’s most wanted list for twenty years now, Delilah would be, “the