Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Samson

Samson was a very special boy who was gifted with strength when he was just a boy. He was the strongest boy of all of the boys and when he grew up he became great man. He grew up as a Nazarite and followed the Nazarite rules: Never to drink alcohol, never to touch something dead and never to cut someones hair. One time when Samson killed a lion with his bare hands he broke a rule by touching the bones of the lion he killed with his bare hands. He also broke the 1st rule about not drinking alcohol. He drank alcohol with the Philistines. One brae thing that he did was to battle against the Philistines by himself which made him a hero that defeated the Philistines and the Israelites. After the battle he fell in love with a Philistine woman named Delilah, but he did not know this can cause a big problem to his secret of being strong. It said that Samson revealed his secret to Delilah that his strength was in his hair because he had never cut it, this was one of the rules he did not break. But unfortunately Delilah betrayed Samson and she lulled Samson to sleep on her lap and asked a man to cut his hair. Once his hair was cut the Philistines easily caught Samson and and threw him in prison.

After many years, Samson's hair grew back and they forgot where his strength was. Samson told the men who were in charge of him to tie him onto two pillars where the palace of Dagon was putting some kind of show. He prayed to God that his strength would come back and with his last breath and strength and pushed the two pillars apart ruining the entire building a killing the philistines inside but for what he did saving his people was an exchange of his life.

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