Samson By William King Analysis

This paper will discuss the Babylonian captivity, a major event from the history of Israel from the creation of Israel to its Statehood in 1948. This event will be discussed, from a historical as well as biblical perspective, what happened to the nation of Israel, how this event impacted the surrounding nations, as well as God’s hand in the event guiding the nation of Israel and His ultimate purpose through the event.

Many years ago during biblical times the Philistine lined up to fight Israel. A man standing over nine feet tall dressed in full armor came out of his camp every day to find a challenger. For forty days there was no one willing to challenge Goliath until David volunteered. David was a young teenager who wasn’t even a part of the war, but was delivering stuff to his brothers, so it took some convincing to the king to let him be the challenger. In 1 Samuel 17 more of the story is told. “45 David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll

In 738BC, the Kingdom of Israel is invaded by Assyria making them a vassal nation in order to control their olive and agriculture trade. Later Pekah, king from 733 to 732BC, attempts to organize an army to revolt against the Assyrian authority but he is soon defeated by Tilgath-Pileser III of Assyria. Hoshea, king from 732BC to 723BC, decides to stop paying tribute to Assyria ending with Shalmaneser IV who in 724 to 729BC begins a long military campaign against the Kingdom of Israel. After the death of Shalmaneser IV, Sargon II becomes king of Assyria and continues the battle eventually winning, capturing, moving and resettling over twenty-seven thousand Israelites within the cities of the Assyrian

Although he knew what was his mission, Samson did not seem to cooperate with God in fulfilling it. Despite that promiscuous, rebellious, violent and arrogant life style, many verses will tell us that the “Spirit of the lord came upon him” and will win the battle to the expense of Samson’s integrity for the empowerment of God’s Spirit did not necessarily mean that God did endorse his

Now the Israelites went out to fight against the Philistines. The Israelites camped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines at Aphek. The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield. When the soldiers returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did Hashem let us get defeat ? Let us bring the ark of Hasham covenant from Shiloh, so that he may go with us and save us  of our enemies.”

The Philistines are known in the Hebrew Bible about their constant fights with the Israelites. The Israelites created a monarchy, its main reason being because of the Philistine’s

The Philistine Army prepared for the upcoming war against the Israelites. On opposite sides of a steep valley, both armies camped facing each other. Goliath, a formidable giant who plumbed over nine feet tall and kept on a full suit of armor, emerged out for 40 days, consecutively. Everyone was terrified of him, but only one was not, David, one of Jesse’s sons. In the story of David and Goliath, the text states, “So David volunteered to fight Goliath” (paragraph 4).

In Judges chapter sixteen, God gave Samson the gift of incredible physical strength. However, when Samson idolized Delilah over the Lord, God allowed the Philistines to cut Samson’s hair, gouge out his eyes, and leave him in jail for many years (Judges 16:21-22). After many years, Samson regained his strength when his hair grew back, and he destroyed the Philistines with the help and blessing of God (Judges 16:28:30). God called Samson to defeat His enemies so that everyone would know that God expects His people to avoid evil and live within His will. Unlike Samson, Beowulf desired vengeance for the death of his friends to glorify himself and leave his

The hair of their heads was not singed, their d cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.” When he saw this he proclaimed “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than h serve and worship any god except their own God. Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way.” (Daniel 3:28-29). And then promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

There are many great stories in the Prophetic section of the Hebrew Bible, but one that stood out the most to me was the story of David and his battle with the Philistine warrior named Goliath. In the story of David, Samuel is directed by God to anoint David as king after His disapproval of Saul. David, the youngest of 8 brothers, was chosen by God to be anointed because he had the purest heart in the eyes of the Lord. From that day forward, the spirit of the Lord was always with David.

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren begins with an account of driving down Highway 58 into the city of Mason. It does not give much to draw conclusions upon at the beginning but transforms as the story progresses. Within the story many elements are used to convey messages to the reader such, as descriptive language to envision the setting. The setting and descriptive language spark fuel for character assumptions. The character “Sugar-Boy” is of Irish decent, but before knowing this fact he seems to be of African American decent.

Other biblical historians claim the Late Date Exodus Theory #2 uses a different timeline of the Era of Judges in order to determine the Exodus date. Besides the 12 judges mentioned previously there were at a minimum four other judges such as Eli who took over for a short time after the death of Samson. The next judge that ruled was Samuel, for 20 years, who before his death appointed his sons Joel and Abiah to be judges just before the formation of the United Monarchy. Also not included during the Era of the Judges is the amount of time that the Israelites were conquered by other nations such as: 1.) from Judges 3:8, the Mesopotamians ruled over the Israelites for 8 years; 2.) found in Judges 3:14, when the Moabites ruled over the Israelites

The nation of Israel was set apart as holy to the LORD. But they When the children of Israel demanded a king, they did so to be like the other nations. The first three kings were Saul, (outwardly tall, handsome and strong—a seemingly good choice for a king, but inwardly arrogant, proud and unrepentant—not God’s choice), David (a man after God’s own heart who repented of his sins and as such was God’s choice), and Solomon (the wisest man who ever lived, but because of covenant disobedience became the catalyst for the division and ultimate exile of Israel.

But once he was grown, Samson seemed to lack concern about the Philistines’ oppressive occupation of his land. He wasn't revolted at the sight of the foul pagan practices of these evil Gentile overlords. He didn't share God's hatred of evil, and he lacked a compelling zeal to see Israel freed of Philistine

Driscoll (2012) describes Samson as the last and most famous of the Judges who presided over Israel. He was born during the forty years of Israel's delivery to the Philistines as a result of abandoning God. His first special trait was that he was somewhat of a miracle, being born to a barren woman in the tribe of Dan. An angel appeared to let her know that he would deliver Israel from the Philistines. So Samson's fate as hero to his people was decided already before he was even conceived.