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God’s Word for You: Judges 16:31 Samson’s faith and mine
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:31 31 Then his brothers and his father’s whole family came down and carried him back. They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years. After his death, Samson’s family came and took care of his burial, just as […]
God’s Word for You: Judges 16:25-30 The Death of Samson
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:25-30 25 When they were in high spirits, they said, “Bring Samson out to entertain us.” So they brought Samson from prison, and he made them laugh. They had him stand between the pillars. The two words translated “entertain” and “made them laugh” are similar. In fact, they only differ […]
God’s Word for You: Ruth 4:1-2 Prescriptive or descriptive
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU RUTH 4:1-2 In this final chapter of Ruth, our author begins and ends with ten men, a sign of completeness, wholeness, and what is right. Boaz visits ten elders of the city to proceed correctly with his marriage to Ruth. Then, in the final verses, there is a genealogy of ten […]
God’s Word for You: Judges 16:23-24 Blasphemy in Gaza
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:23-24 23 Now the Philistine rulers assembled to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They celebrated and said, “Our god has handed Samson our enemy into our hands.” Yesterday was May the 4th, sometimes called “Star Wars Day” (after the phrase “May the force (or 4th) be with […]
God’s Word for You: Judges 16:22 It began to grow back…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:22 22 But after Samson’s hair had been shaved off, it began to grow back again. Shaved. Scraped. Shamed. But… When we look into the law of God and we are honest with ourselves, we see nothing but failure, guilt, and death. We are liars and thieves. Drug-dealers and prostitutes […]
God’s Word for You: Judges 16:18-21 Samson bound and blinded
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:18-21 18 When Delilah understood that he had told her everything, she sent word to the Philistine rulers: “Come once more, for he has told me everything.” The Philistine rulers came to her and brought the silver with them. Milt was a candy maker. He tried a small start-up venture […]
God’s Word for You: Judges 16:13-17 A sharp answer
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:13-17 13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You’ve been making a fool of me all along and you’ve been lying to me! Tell me how you can be tied up.” Was Delilah a liar or a fool? Or was everything she said and did coming from cold, calculating greed? David […]
God’s Word for You – Judges 16:10-12 Forgiveness
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:10-12 10 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and told me lies! Now please tell me how you can be tied up. ” We don’t know if this happened all at once, or over the course of time with many days or weeks passing. Delilah’s accusation is a […]
Ruth 3:16b-18 Not emptily
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU RUTH 3:16b-18 Then Ruth told her everything that the man had done for her. 17 She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley. He said, ‘Don’t go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’” 18 Then Naomi said, “Wait patiently, my daughter, until you know how this turns out. The man will […]
Judges 16:4-9 Seven magic strings
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:4-9 4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman from the Valley of Sorek. Her name was Delilah. 5 The Philistine rulers went to her and said, “Persuade him to tell you where his great strength comes from and how we can overpower him, so that we […]
Judges 16:3 The Gaza gate
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 16:3 3 But Samson lay there only until midnight. Then he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate along with the two gateposts, and tore them out, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the mountain that […]
Judges 15:14-20 and 16:1-2 From Jawbone Hill to The house of the rising sun
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JUDGES 15:14-20 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came on him in power, and the ropes that were on his arms became like burnt flax and they fell from his hands. 15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey. […]
