Samson

Nave's Topics

 

A judge of Israel

Jdg 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 unclean thing during gestation

Jdg 13:2-7; Jdg 13:24-25

Desires a Philistine woman for his wife; slays a lion

Jdg 14:1-7

His marriage feast and the riddle propounded

Jdg 14:8-19

Slays thirty Philistines

Jdg 14:19

Wife of, estranged

Jdg 14:20; Jdg 15:1-2

Is avenged for the estrangement of his wife

Jdg 15:3-8

His great strength

Jdg 15:7-14; Heb 11:32

Slays a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass

Jdg 15:13-17

Miraculously supplied with water

Jdg 15:18-19

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

Judg 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 slays a multitude of his enemies

Jdg 16:21-31; Heb 11:32

 

Taken from: Nave's Topics were originally produced by Orville J. Nave (1841-1917)