Words For Courageous Living

Samson: The Visual
Judges Chapter 15



Neal Carlson

Samson Home Samson Visual: Judges 13 | Judges14 | Judges 16

Samson knock, knock, knockin'Later on--it was during the wheat harvest--Samson visited his bride, bringing a young goat. He said, "Let me see my wife--show me her bedroom." But her father wouldn't let him in. 2 He said, "I concluded that by now you hated her with a passion, so I gave her to your best man. But her little sister is even more beautiful. Why not take her instead?" 3 Samson said, "That does it. This time when I wreak havoc on the Philistines, I'm blameless.


 
 
 

foxes

4 Samson then went out and caught three hundred jackals. He lashed the jackals' tails together in pairs and tied a torch between each pair of tails.

field 5 He then set fire to the torches and let them loose in the Philistine fields of ripe grain. Everything burned, both stacked and standing grain, vineyards and olive orchards — everything.

olive orchard

6 The Philistines said, "Who did this?" They were told, "Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite who took his bride and gave her to his best man." The Philistines went up and burned both her and her father to death.
 
Burning Building


Samson


7 Samson then said, "If this is the way you're going to act, I swear I'll get even with you. And I'm not quitting till the job's done!"


 
 
 
 
  Another day at the office

8 With that he tore into them, ripping them limb from limb--a huge slaughter.


 
 
 
 
Rock outcropping

Then he went down and stayed in a cave at Etam Rock.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  More of dashing Samson, dashing people

9 The Philistines set out and made camp in Judah, preparing to attack Lehi (Jawbone). 10When the men of Judah asked, "Why have you come up against us?" they said, "We're out to get Samson. We're going after Samson to do to him what he did to us." 11 Three companies of men from Judah went down to the cave at Etam Rock and said to Samson, "Don't you realize that the Philistines already bully and lord it over us? So what's going on with you, making things even worse?"

Samson in a net

He said, "It was tit for tat. I only did to them what they did to me." 12 They said, "Well, we've come down here to tie you up and turn you over to the Philistines."


 
 
 
 
 
  Hee hee, that tickles

Samson said, "Just promise not to hurt me." 13 We promise," they said. "We will tie you up and surrender you to them but, believe us, we won't kill you." They proceeded to tie him with new ropes and led him up from the Rock.

Tied up at the office

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
Samson bound

14 As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him, shouting in triumph. And then the Spirit of GOD came on him with great power. The ropes on his arms fell apart like flax on fire;


 
 
 
 
  Samson in chains

the thongs slipped off his hands. Samson in chains still


 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 


 
 

 
 
Donkey jawbone

15 He spotted a fresh donkey jawbone, reached down and grabbed it, and with it killed the whole company. 16 And Samson said, With a donkey's jawbone I made heaps of donkeys of them.


 
 
 
 

With a donkey's jawbone I killed an entire company.
 
Samson swinging donkey jawboneDonkey jawboneDonkey jawboneDonkey jawbone


Samson disposes of the jawbone

17 When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone. He named that place Ramath Lehi (Jawbone Hill).


 
 

 
Samson's cry to God

118 Now he was suddenly very thirsty. He called out to GOD


 
 
 
  Water from the rock

" You have given your servant this great victory. Are you going to abandon me to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" 19 So God split open the rock basin in Lehi; water gushed out and Samson drank. His spirit revived--he was alive again! That's why it's called En Hakkore (Caller's Spring). It's still there at Lehi today.


 
 

 

 


Samson Home Samson Visual: Judges 13 | Judges14 | Judges 16


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