Samson Muscles In On JUDGES Space!

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Samson Muscles In On JUDGES Space!

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2006

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BBS#8: The JUDGES Era

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Rev Ian Brown

Scripture has more to stay about Samson than any of the other judges. This is not because Samson was the best of the bunch of judges, but due to the fact that special features and circumstances surrounded his life and labours. These facts should be considered:

• The period of oppression and subjection to enemy forces was twice as long before Samson’s rise to judge in Israel than at any other time. Prior to Deborah assuming the role of judge in Israel, the Canaanites had oppressed the people of the Lord for 20 years (cf. Judges 4:1-3): by the time Samson appeared, the Philistines had been in control of Israel for 40 years (Judges 13:1).

• While Othniel, Ehud, Deborah and Barak, Gideon and Jephthah delivered Israel from the clutches of their enemies, Samson did not deliver them from the Philistines. The 20 years which comprised his judgeship occurred during the Philistine oppression; not after it!

• While other judges were raised up at moments of extreme crisis to deliver Israel from their enemies, Samson was dedicated to his task before he was born (Judges 13:5).

• Of the 7 references in the book of Judges to “the Spirit of the Lord,” 4 of these occur in connection with Samson (Judges 13:25; 14:6,19; 15:14).

• Of the 23 references in Judges to “the Angel of the Lord,” 13 are found in connection with the birth of Samson (Judges 13).

• Samson was the only judge not backed by an army of Israelites - and the only one who was betrayed into the hands of the enemy by the men of Israel (Judges 15:9-13).

• Samson was the only Nazarite of all the judges.

• Samson was the only judge who entered into disastrous liaisons with the enemy.

• Samson was the only judge who was expressly said to have been forsaken of the Lord (Judges 16:20).

• Of all the judges, Samson was the only one who died in captivity, and left Israel in servitude to the enemy, the Philistines.

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