samson

     

Samson, Shimshon (Hebrew: שִׁמְשׁוֹן, Stanard Šimšon Tiberian Šimšôn; meaning "of the sun" – perhaps proclaiming he was radiant and mighty, or "[One who] Serves [God]") or Shamshoum شمشون (Arabic) is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Children of Israel mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, and the Talmud. He is described in the Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16. He is believed to be buried in Tel Tzora in Israel overlooking the Sorek valley. There reside two large gravestones of Samson and his father Manoah. Nearby stands Manoach’s altar (Judges 13:19-24). It is located between the cities of Zorah and Eshtaol.

Trivia about samson

  • This strongman was killed destroying a Philistine temple & was interred in his father's burying place
  • This long-haired son of Manoah was always having run-ins with Philistines
  • It was hair today, gone tomorrow for this Biblical hero when he fell asleep on Delilah's knees
  • Delilah gave him a real trimming
  • Handel wrote a 1743 oratorio about this Biblical guy who got a famous haircut
  • This strongman carried the gates of Gaza about 40 miles to a hilltop named Hebron
  • In a biblical opera, this shorn strongman really brings down the house; his audience was just crushed
  • "There hath not come a razor upon mine head, for I have been a Nazarite unto God," he told Delilah
  • This strongman's last prayer was that God give him the strength to collapse the temple of his Philistine captors
  • The Philistines took him "and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass"
  • He said, "If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak"
  • He prayed to God for strength that "I may be at once avenged...for my two eyes"
  • This strongman told the first riddle; it concerned a honey-filled lion
  • In one Milton poem this Biblical hero speaks of the strength he had "while I preserved these locks unshorn"
  • The 14th chapter of Judges reports that he killed a lion with his bare hands
  • Before killing 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, he set 300 foxes' tails afire; does PETA know about this?
  • Muscleman in the Ruben's work seen here:
  • Remarkably, using only the jawbone of an ass, he slew 1,000 men in the Old Testament
  • He revealed, "If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me"
  • Nahum,Samson,Ezekiel
  • At the end of his life, this man prayed for the strength to avenge himself on the Philistines
  • He easily broke the bowstrings Delilah used to bind him
  • Poet John Milton had this biblical strongman lamenting, "O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!"
  • He used the strength of his mind when he proposed a riddle to the Philistines in Judges 14
  • The Philistines made sport of him "and they set him between the pillars"
  • Blinded after losing his strength, he was put to work in the prison in Gaza
  • In the Bible that traitorous hussy Delilah had this man's pride & joy shaved, & then turned him over to the enemy
  • In the Book of Judges, his Nazirite vows brought him great power but his passions brought his downfall
  • He avenged his treatment by the Philistines, crashing their temple down on them
  • In the Bible's Book of Judges, he carried the Gates of Gaza about 40 miles to a hilltop near Hebron
  • In Judges he said, "With the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men"
  • Milton had him bemoaning, "O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!"
  • In Judges 16 this strong man dies in Gaza, one of the Philistines' 5 strong cities
  • One lie he told was "If they bind me with 7 green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak"
  • In separate works, Rembrandt painted this man "Threatening His Father-In-Law" & and also portrayed his "Blinding"