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To: Celtic Cross

Sampson was a Nazirite not a Nazarene. Big difference.


285 posted on 11/26/2011 12:43:31 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
Missed that ...good catch .... important to note that Samson was still loved by God even after his disclosure and haircut... He heard the prayer and used Samson to destroy the Philistine temple ..to the praise and glory of His name

Then Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars which support the temple, so that I can lean on them." Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there; about three thousand men and women on the roof watching while Samson performed. Then Samson called to the LORD, saying, "O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!" And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars which supported the temple, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the other on his left. Then Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life. And his brothers and all his father's household came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.

290 posted on 11/26/2011 1:07:28 PM PST by RnMomof7
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