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SAMSON

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A judge (leader, hero) of Israel

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Judges 16:31

A Danite, son of Manoah; miraculous birth of; a Nazarite from his mother's womb; the mother forbidden to drink wine or strong drink, or to eat any ceremonially unclean thing during gestation

Desires a Philistine woman for his wife; kills a lion

His marriage feast and the riddle propounded

Kills thirty Philistines

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Judges 14:19

Wife of, estranged

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Judges 14:20Judges 15:1Judges 15:2

Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife

His great strength

Kills one-thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey

Miraculously supplied with water

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Judges 15:18Judges 15:19

Cohabits with Delilah, a prostitute; her machinations with the Philistines to overcome him

Is blinded by the Philistines and confined to hard labor in prison; pulls down the pillars of the temple, meets his death, and kills a multitude of his enemies

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