June 3, 2025
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Reading along with us in Judges, Proverbs, and Psalms? Here’s today’s reading:
Judges 15 (NIV)
Samson’s Vengeance on the Philistines
1 Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.” But her father would not let him go in.
2“I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”…..Continue Reading
Well this chapter could be summed up by “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. Revenge and retaliation is a never ending cycle. Someone is wronged, they retaliate, and now the other person feels justified to retaliate again. While difficult to let someone who has wronged you just “get away with it” for lack of a better term, ultimately God is the only judge and we must put faith in Him that the guilty will be punished for their sin. Yet God did once again used Samson’s impulsive vengeful ways to accomplish His plan for the Philistines and gave him a mighty victory over them and then provided for his physical needs as well miraculously providing water for him.
Judges 15
Judges 15
This chapter made me wonder just how big and strong Samson was, that Philistines would retaliate for his behavior and thereby kill their own? There must have been a great measure of strength that he brought because he acts impetuously at times…and yet combine that with the strength of the Lord…and he is unstoppable. Kind of like us when we are being used by God and thereby empowered by Him. It is strange that God would use such a man to accomplish His purposes on bringing judgement on the Philistines….maybe not so different from us and the grace that God extends to us in using us in His plan.
Judges 15
Judges 15
Judges is so perplexing. The Holy Spirit empowers Samson to break his bonds and then to slay 1000 philistines. Then Samson begs for water….
”And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.“
Judges 15:20 NKJV
Was a judge a leader? Or was a judge to settle disputes? Or was a judge a deliverer?
I think a little of all three. But mainly 1 and 3.
Judges 15