SAMSON

A judge (leader, hero) of Israel

Jud 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

Jud 13:2-7,24,25

Desires a Philistine woman for his wife; kills a lion

Jud 14:1-7

His marriage feast and the riddle propounded

Jud 14:8-19

Kills thirty Philistines

Jud 14:19

Wife of, estranged

Jud 14:20; 15:1,2

Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife

Jud 15:3-8

His great strength

Jud 15:7-14; Heb 11:32

Kills one-thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey

Jud 15:13-17

Miraculously supplied with water

Jud 15:18,19

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

Jud 16:1-20

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

Jud 16:21-31; Heb 11:32