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Judges 14:1-15
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One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he noticed a certain young Philistine woman.
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He went back home and told his father and mother, "There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her."
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But his father and mother asked him, "Why do you have to go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can't you find someone in our own clan, among all our people?" But Samson told his father, "She is the one I want you to get for me. I like her."
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His parents did not know that it was the LORD who was leading Samson to do this, for the LORD was looking for a chance to fight the Philistines. At this time the Philistines were ruling Israel.
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So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother. As they were going through the vineyards there, he heard a young lion roaring.
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Suddenly the power of the LORD made Samson strong, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands, as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his parents what he had done.
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Then he went and talked to the young woman, and he liked her.
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A few days later Samson went back to marry her. On the way he left the road to look at the lion he had killed, and he was surprised to find a swarm of bees and some honey inside the dead body.
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He scraped the honey out into his hands and ate it as he walked along. Then he went to his father and mother and gave them some. They ate it, but Samson did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the dead body of a lion.
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His father went to the woman's house, and Samson gave a banquet there. This was a custom among the young men.
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When the Philistines saw him, they sent thirty young men to stay with him.
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Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle. I'll bet each one of you a piece of fine linen and a change of fine clothes that you can't tell me its meaning before the seven days of the wedding feast are over." "Tell us your riddle," they said. "Let's hear it."
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(SEE 14:12)
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He said, "Out of the eater came something to eat; Out of the strong came something sweet." Three days later they had still not figured out what the riddle meant.
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On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Trick your husband into telling us what the riddle means. If you don't, we'll set fire to your father's house and burn you with it. You two invited us so that you could rob us, didn't you?"
Judges 16:22-30
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But his hair started growing back.
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The Philistine kings met together to celebrate and offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They sang, "Our god has given us victory over our enemy Samson!"
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They were enjoying themselves, and so they said, "Call Samson, and let's make him entertain us!" When they brought Samson out of the prison, they made him entertain them and made him stand between the columns. When the people saw him, they sang praise to their god: "Our god has given us victory over our enemy, who devastated our land and killed so many of us!"
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(SEE 16:24)
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Samson said to the boy who was leading him by the hand, "Let me touch the columns that hold up the building. I want to lean on them."
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The building was crowded with men and women. All five Philistine kings were there, and there were about three thousand men and women on the roof, watching Samson entertain them.
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Then Samson prayed, "Sovereign LORD, please remember me; please, God, give me my strength just this one time more, so that with this one blow I can get even with the Philistines for putting out my two eyes."
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So Samson took hold of the two middle columns holding up the building. Putting one hand on each column, he pushed against them
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and shouted, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He pushed with all his might, and the building fell down on the five kings and everyone else. Samson killed more people at his death than he had killed during his life.
Judges 18:22-31
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They had traveled a good distance from the house when Micah called his neighbors out for battle. They caught up with the Danites
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and shouted at them. The Danites turned around and asked Micah, "What's the matter? Why all this mob?"
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Micah answered, "What do you mean, 'What's the matter?' You take my priest and the gods that I made, and walk off ! What have I got left?"
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The Danites told him, "You had better not say anything else unless you want these men to get angry and attack you. You and your whole family would die."
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Then the Danites went on. Micah saw that they were too strong for him, so he turned and went back home.
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After the Danites had taken the priest and the things that Micah had made, they went and attacked Laish, that town of peaceful, quiet people which was in the same valley as Bethrehob. They killed the inhabitants and burned the town. There was no one to save them, because Laish was a long way from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any other people. The Danites rebuilt the town and settled down there.
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(SEE 18:27)
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They changed its name from Laish to Dan, after their ancestor Dan, the son of Jacob.
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The Danites set up the idol to be worshiped, and Jonathan, the son of Gershom and grandson of Moses, served as a priest for the Danites, and his descendants served as their priests until the people were taken away into exile.
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Micah's idol remained there as long as the Tent where God was worshiped remained at Shiloh.
1 Chronicles 12:35
(SEE 12:23)