SAMSON: the son
of man - Chapter 20
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AND HE SHALL BEGIN TO DELIVER
ISRAEL
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01-29-06
(Judg 13:1-5) And the children of Israel did
evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into
the hand [power] of the [uncircumcised unsaved] Philistines
forty years [a symbolic time of testing]. And there was a certain
man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites [judges],
whose name was Manoah [rest]; and his wife was barren, and
bare not [seven barren women in the Bible]. And the angel of the LORD appeared
unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest
not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. Now therefore beware, I
pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any
unclean thing: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no
razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto
God from the womb: and he shall begin [a process] to
deliver Israel out of the hand [power] of the Philistines.
1.
Zorah =
Heb: a wasp (as stinging): hornet /// to scourge, i.e. to be stricken with
leprosy: leper, leprous.
2.
Nazarite =
Heb: separate, i.e. consecrated (holy); hence an unpruned vine.
3.
Vows of a
Nazarite: 1. shall not drink wine nor eat any fruit of the vine or unclean
thing. 2. shall not cut his hair. 3. shall not have contact with the dead.
4.
(Exo
20:25) And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build
it of hewn stone [something cut, i.e. dressed stone]: for if thou
lift up thy tool [cutting instrument] upon it, thou hast polluted
it.
5.
(Zec
12:1) The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which
stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth,
and formeth the spirit of man within him.
6.
formeth =
Heb: (through the squeezing into shape); to mould into a form; espec. as a
potter; fig. to determine (i.e. form a resolution):-- X earthen, fashion, form,
frame, make (-r), potter, purpose.
7.
(Phil
1:6) Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a
good work in you will perform it [to fulfill further (or
completely)] until the day of Jesus Christ:
8.
(Rom
12:1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice [i.e. a Nazarite], holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service.
9.
(Rom
12:2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed [i.e.
a process] by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
10. deliver = Heb: rescue, be safe,
bring (having) salvation, save (-iour), get victory.
ASHKELON = Heb: migration, fire of
infamy
THE BEGINNING OF DELIVERANCE
FROM THE PHILISTINES
(Judg 14:19) And the spirit of the LORD came
upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty
men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto
them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up
to his father's house.
1.
Ashkelon =
Heb: migration; in the sense of weighing-place (i.e. mart), fire of infamy;
one of the five principal cities of the Philistines.
2.
infamy =
Dict: 1. evil fame, shameful notoriety, or public reproach. 2. infamous
character or conduct.
3.
Samson
took thirty spotted defiled garments (spotted and defiled with sin) from thirty
uncircumcised unsaved Philistines in Ashkelon and gave them to his thirty
uncircumcised unsaved Philistine “companions” at the wedding feast. BUT
THERE WAS NO GAIN! Yes, the thirty companions had technically solved the
riddle, but by “some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” (John
10:1). They cheated with Samson’s wife. Therefore, the thirty companions were
still going to Hell, “not having a [righteous] wedding garment.”
(Mat 22:12).
GAZA = Heb: strong
SAMSON’S CRUCIFIXION, AND
RESURRECTION
(Judg 16:21) But the [uncircumcised unsaved] Philistines
took him [Samson the Son of God, now as a type of Christ], and put
out his eyes [i.e. no light], and brought him down to Gaza, and
bound him with fetters of brass [symbolic of the bindings upon us of our
sins, binding us to this world; i.e. the nails of the cross]; and he did
grind in the prison house [he paid the penalty for all our
sins].
1.
(Mat
27:45) Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the
land unto the ninth hour.
2.
Gaza =
Heb: strong; one of the five principal cities of the Philistines.
3.
fetters of
brass = Heb: copper; fig. base (as compared with gold or silver):
chains, filthiness.
4.
grind =
Heb: to grind meal (the work of a woman or a slave, however, the work was
indeed seed).
(Judg 16:22-24) Howbeit the hair of his head began
to grow again after he was shaven [to be bald, i.e. to shave; fig. to
lay waste]. Then the lords of the [uncircumcised unsaved] Philistines
[a sea people originally from the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea]
gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon
their god [the fish-god], and to rejoice: for they
said, Our god hath delivered Samson [sunlight] our
enemy [hated; adversary] into our hand. And when the people saw him,
they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered
into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which
slew many of us.
1.
(John
3:19) And this is the condemnation [damnation, judgment],
that light [Samson, sunlight] is come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Commentary: But how about the three remaining
uncircumcised unsaved Philistine cities? Judgment will come upon all
uncircumcised unsaved men. Let us temporarily leave Samson and the judgment of
God in the city of Gaza and follow the trail of Dagon their God from
Gaza to the next biblical mention of one of the five principle Philistine
cities...
ASHDOD = Heb: ravager, fortress
(1 Sam 5:1-7) And the [uncircumcised] Philistines
took the ark of God [the Ark of the Covenant, Samson the Son
of God in type], and brought it from Ebenezer [stone of help]
unto Ashdod [ravager, fortress, stronghold; one of five
principal Philistine cities]. When the [uncircumcised unsaved] Philistines
took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon [a
Philistine adaptation of the Canaanite god Baal], and set it by Dagon.
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen
upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took
Dagon, and set him in his place again. And when they arose early on the
morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground
before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the
palms [power] of his hands were cut off upon the threshold [the
sill of a doorway]; only the stump of Dagon was left to him. Therefore
neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on
the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day. But the hand of
the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them,
and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. And when
the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall
not abide with us: for his hand is sore [severe] upon us, and
upon Dagon our god.
1.
emerods =
Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible: Heb: ophel, tumor; emerod. From aphal,
to swell. Emerods is an old spelling of the modern hemorrhoids (bleeding piles;
Deut 28:27).
GATH = Heb: wine-press
(1 Sam 5:8,9) They sent therefore and gathered all the
lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark
of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of
Israel [Samson the Son of God in type] be carried about unto Gath.
And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither. And it was so,
that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the
city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men
of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their
secret parts.
1.
Gath =
Heb: wine-press; one of the five principal Philistine cities. Inhibatants
called Gittites. Residence of the Anakim, men of great stature. Goliath and
other giants belonged to this race. Its site is uncertain, for Gath disappeared
mysteriously from history by an unknown calamity referred to in Amos 6:2.
EKRON = Heb: eradication,
extermination
(1 Sam 5:10-12) Therefore they sent the ark of God
[Samson the Son of God in type] to Ekron [eradication:
extermination, torn up by the roots; one of five principal Philistine cities].
And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the
Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of
Israel to us, to slay us and our people. So they sent and gathered together
all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of
Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our
people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city;
the hand of God was very heavy there. And the men that died not were smitten
with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
Amen
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