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            judge noted for great physical strength.  | 
         
       
       
      
         
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              Samson battled Israel's enemies 
               
              battle scene  
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      Samson was born to 
        aged parents. He was a Nazirite set apart for God's service and therefore 
        did not cut his hair or drink alcohol. His exploits included tearing a 
        lion apart with his bare hands, killing a company of the men of Ashdod, 
        setting fire to their fields and orchards, and slaughtering a thousand 
        men with the jawbone of an ass. After a Philistine 
        woman named Delilah enticed Samson to reveal the secret of his great strength, 
        she cut off his hair, and the Philistines gouged out his eyes, bound him 
        with strong fetters, and set him to grind at the mill in the prison. But 
        Samson's hair, the secret of his strength, began to grow again. The day 
        came when the Philistine lords sent for the blind Samson to laugh at him. 
        Samson felt for the pillars on which the house rested, pulled them down, 
        and died along with many Philistines.  
      Judg 
        13:1-25 - Birth  
        Judg 
        16:4-31 - Delilah  
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