The legendary strongman of Israel, a Nazirite from birth set apart by God to begin delivering Israel from the Philistines. Samson’s supernatural strength enabled extraordinary feats—killing a lion with his bare hands, striking down a thousand men with a donkey’s jawbone, and tearing apart city gates. Yet his weakness for women, culminating in his betrayal by Delilah, led to his capture and blinding. In his final act, Samson brought down the Philistine temple, killing more enemies in death than in life.
Then Samson called out to the LORD: “O Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, O God, just once more, so that with one vengeful blow I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”Judges 16:28 · Berean Standard Bible
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children. The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong…
An angel appears to a barren woman. Her son will be a Nazirite from the womb — set apart for God before his first breath.
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